The Rise of Overlord Vulcan Side-Story!

by The Dark Dragen

Side story of Overlord Vulcan: read as you learn about the Mystics, and where they came from. Once you know about them, read about the adventures of a young Mystic-Knight, who goes by the name of Erebus. ON HOLD UNTIL MUSE RETURNS!

10. Chapter 9: Mystic Knight Erebus - Part 1

Author's Note: Welcome back to another chapter of the Side-Story, this start well begin the start of the main character of this story for now Mystic Knight Erebus. This'll be the start of the longer chapters, and hopefully in time see more of the Mystic side of the story and for a while stay away from the main story unless needed. We'll see what happens as I write. Please let me know what you think.

This is the second chapter of the night, and once again Merry Christmas everyone…

Chapter Nine.

(Mystic Knight Erebus - Part 1!)

22nd of March 2007:

It has been over twenty years since the Etherious Snake Demon attacked and killed nearly everyone on Salus, and since then a lot has changed since that day. Within the year of the demon killing nearly everyone on Salus, the Snake Demon that they found out was named Demon Lord Myurr, had somehow joined the Acolytes and nearly destroying Mystic Island. It was a close call, but thanks to the Devil Slayers that Henry knew, and the ones that they were able to train, were able to hold off the fight.

Now because of this, the Mystic Council had put their plans for an underwater village on the fast trick. You see the Mystic Council was planning for the future, as they suspected they would need more room as time passed and they got bigger. It was going to be a few years before they were going to put the plan forward, but now thanks to the attacks they would have to do so sooner than planned.

So with the technology of the time, and to use of magic, they created loads of underwater domes. In the dome they built many villages that held farmland and homes that allowed over ten thousand people to live in. The homes were mainly for the non-combatant citizens who wanted to live down there, instead of living on top, as they feared of another attack. Not only could they live down here, but should there be another attack, there were escape routes for them to use. And whilst there was shops and such above, there were the same things in the underwater domes, so that people wouldn't have to go all the way up to the main island to get what they needed or do, and go all the way down again.

Over the years, there were many attacks across the world because of the Snake Demon Lord Myurr, and his army, but thanks to the new Holy Knights who learnt the Devil Slayer Magic, these attacks were dealt with and no one was the wise. No pun intended, but it was a godsend making a deal with the church, as they sent magical orphan to them so they could be trained into Devil Slayers. It also helps the church too, as normally when they find out that one of the orphans that they were looking after found to be magical, they would send them to another orphanage. But now they would send them to Mystic Island, where they can use their powers for a useful means.

Another thing that happened over the years was that the Paladins had gotten to be a bigger problem. Although they preach about hating magic, they seem to be okay with siding with magical creatures known as Sentinels. The Mystic Council don't know much about these Sentinels, but what they did know was the following: the Sentinels wore robes that separate in three pieces. Lowest on their body was an long dress made of what looked like segmented leather, that one could assume was part of a chest piece as well. Next up was a loose white robe with wide brimmed sleeves that ended at their waist, complete with a hanging flag sporting a golden eye. Finally, and most importantly, their identity was hidden by a black hood with fanciful gold inlay that extended into a knee length cape. They also had a golden staff, which had a Crescent Moon holding a diamond in the centre on top of it.

The other thing that they knew about these Sentinels, was that they had a strange power that could nullify most magics. Not only that, but they were able to open portals to get them to one place to another, which was a pain in a fight, as they would be able to use the portals to help the Paladins get around in fights. They also had limited control of lightning.

The Mystic Knights also knew that Sentinels hated Magic Users just as the Warriors of God did, although the Knights didn't know why. The saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend came to mind to the Mystics Knights, as seeing that the Sentinels seemed to be Magical Beings, they had a common goal with the Paladins, to destroy all Magical Users - this was the only reason the Knights could think of for the Paladins not killing them.

It was decided by the Mystic Council that unless people already knew about them, only the Mystic Knights and those of higher ranks knew about the Sentinels, as they didn't want to make the other Mystics more afraid of the Paladins than they already were. Who wouldn't be, if they knew that there were some creatures that were able to nullify ones power. It helped that the Paladins didn't use the Sentinels in a public area, and only used them when they had confirmed sightings of magic users, the Paladins used the Sentinels to pinpoint them down and destroy them.

However, as the years passed, technology had gotten better, it made it harder for many first generation Magic Users to hide, as they unlike the Purebloods had records. One such technology that created problems for the first generation Magic Users, was the computer and the internet. As the Witch Hunters would look for those who suddenly disappear off the grid, like school records, up to date doctors records and such, but then a few years later they would suddenly reappear. When people disappear for years, and only reappear without a good enough of a reason for the disappearance, it sent red flags up, and some of the Witch Hunters looked into this. (Although thanks to computers, big groups Sentinels were thankfully used less and less, and now only one Sentinel were used to confirm if someone had magic or not. Nowadays the use of more than one Sentinel, were only now used to deal with the more powerful of Magical Users.)

Those who who disappear off the grid, were investigated to find out the reason behind it. Whilst most didn't find anything wrong with the cover stories that they came up with, they won't looking for what the Witch Hunters were looking for.

Whilst there were a few good reasons for why a person wasn't on record for a few years, most of the time they found what they were looking for - a Magical Person or two - where they sent them in their words 'back to hell, where they belonged.' Although before doing so, they would interrogate them for information about the whereabouts of other Magical Users, and see what they knew.

The Ministry of Magic quickly realized there was a problem when Magical Places were being attacked, and fearing the worse, e.g, these Witch Hunters finding something out they shouldn't, the Ministry cast a huge spell over England. This spell made people forget what they learnt over the years, and destroyed any records they had about the Wizarding World, and stop future Magical User from telling Witch Hunters anything.

There was two problems to this spell, the first the Ministry of Magic didn't care much about as it only mainly affected the Muggle-Borns and Half-Bloods. As should a Witch Hunter capture them, they wouldn't be able to tell the Hunters anything, and so all that happened was that the magic users had a painful death, and the Witch Hunters got nothing from them. To the Ministry of Magic, they were protecting those with Magic, and in their eyes what happened to those who got caught couldn't be helped. It was the price to be paid to save so many others.

The other problem was the cost of doing the spell, to keep their life safe and sound, they had to make some of their most powerful Purebloods into Squibs. As the spell takes all the magic from a person, to alter the memories of those who don't have magic, and anything written down about the Wizarding World. Because it makes people Squibs, they didn't use this spell unless they had no other option like a lot of people meaning to harm them knew about them.

Out of all the Witch Hunters out there, the Paladins became one of the more organised and skilled Hunters out there, with their advanced technology. It was only by surprise and sheer luck that the Paladins were defeated each time. Which is why when a Mystic Knight faced a Paladin they would call in a group of Mystic Templar's to fight them.

Other than Demons, Dark Mystics, Witch Hunters and the Paladins, the Mystic Council had another problem over the years. At some point in the 1990's they were pulled into a civil war with the Wizards and Witches in England, and because of the deal they made all those years ago, they had to get involved in the war. The civil war was against a so-called Dark Lord calling himself Lord Voldemort, and his men who were called Death Eaters.

This Dark Lord was trying to take over the WIzarding World, to get rid of or enslave the Muggles and Muggle-Borns, and if they wouldn't follow him, Half-Bloods too. This Voldemort seemed to think that Muggles and Muggle-Borns were low class, something to walk upon and use as they like, and Half-Bloods second class depending what side they were on were as useful as they don't attack him and other Purebloods, and finally Pureblood who he thought should rule the world.

What amazed the Mystic Council was that even though they hate Muggle-Borns, Voldemort and his Death Eaters allied themselves to the group known as the Acolytes. The Council believe that it was a means to an end for both groups, and when they got what they needed from one another, or they were no longer useful for each other, one would kill the other.

As the war went on, the Mystic Knights were shocked at that Voldemort and his Death Eaters were able fight toe to toe with them, it was like they were magical enhanced somehow. From their spies, they heard it had to do something with potions and rituals, but they wasn't sure for sure as they won't at the top of the food chain to find out more. And they were able to use Earthland Magic, Darkness Magic, which they were trying to cover up so that no one found out about it.

The war raged on for years, and luck, stealth attacks and spies in the enemy camp allowed things not to go as bad as it could have. They might have won a few battles over the years, but the war was far from over, whatever this Dark Lord Voldemort did to himself, he was too powerful, even for the strongest of the Mystic Knights or Mystic Templars. Not only that, to make things worse he put a Taboo on his name, so that anyone who says his name would be found no matter the wards used, would be found and killed and so people had to call him You-Know-Who or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

The war lasted at least eleven years, where many deaths, rapes, torture be it Mystics, Mundanes, and Wizards/Witches, it wasn't until the year 31st of October 2001 that the war ended, with the defeat of Voldemort. The Mystic Council was shocked to learn that the war ended and the two groups parted, because the Dark Lord was defeated by an one year old baby boy, Harry Potter.

None of the Council had any idea how the child or his parents did it, and before they could investigate it, the Potters bodies were cremated, and the young boy was taken into hiding. They don't know if the Dark Lord was killed or not, but no-one had seen him since that night - many believed that Voldemort was too injured and weak, unable to do anything. And was somewhere recovering somewhere.

Whatever the case, from that day other than finding that Harry Potter became known as the Boy-Who-Lived, they had very little to do with the Wizarding World, other than shopping, the odd jobs the Ministry of Magic had for them, and dealing with any new Mystics that wanted to join them.

As for the Acolytes and the Death Eaters, the Acolytes seemed to vanish, no one is sure what happened to them. They knew they were still out there, but with the disappearance of the Dark Lord, they went back into the shadows doing God knows what.

As for the Death Eaters, most of them told the fools at the Ministry of Magic that the Dark Lord controlled them and the fools let them go without being tested to see if it was true or a word. And those who admitted being loyal to the Dark Lord was sent to Azkaban.

Whilst the Acolytes that followed Voldemort, was tested and dealt with occondenly. Those who were controlled, were sent free if controlled by magic, but sent to a Close Security Prison if they found that they were blackmailed, threatened and such. But if they won't controlled they would be sent to somewhere they would stay until such time they served their time.

However, knowing that there were Acolytes and Death Eaters that escaped justice, the Mystic Knights and Templar's prepared should they ever make a move. But they also prepared for any other Dark Mystics, groups, that may try and take up where Dark Lord Voldemort left off - trying to control the world.

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It wasn't all doom and gloom though, sure they had a lot of hard times, but they had a lot of good times too. Sure they had to come up with codenames to to keep his family safe, as those who went to Mystic Academy were often targeted because of their roles. And often need to wear masks, or alter their face against those they fight against.

But it wasn't all bad, there was peaceful times too and over the years the race known as the Mystics had gotten bigger over time, so much that the Mystic Council established many camps around the world where they trained other potential Mystics. It was getting harder to keep the lid on about magic, but they were doing so, even if barely.

Because of the growing rate of Dark Mystics, they created a special task force with the like of Scotland Yard, F.B.I and such groups like them. Namely known as Mystic Task Force, or M.T.F, the group would investigate cases where the unexplained things happened, like crimes where people thought magic or the supernatural was involved. And if found that it was the case that magic was indeed involved, the M.T.F would take over the case, and made sure that whilst justice would be dealt, the truth about how things went down would be covered up and a cover story would be issued. A few of the Law Enforcers didn't like this, but seeing that the orders came from above their heads they could nothing about it, and there were new laws to cover this so they couldn't tell anyone unless they wanted to go to jail for life.

Now because Mystics can't be held in normal prisons, the Mystic Council created two super powered prisons. The first was built on the Abandoned Panopticon Prison in Cuba, which they brought cheep. The Panopticon Prison was abandoned in 1967, as it was thought it was in humane, and unsuitable for humans. There was four buildings with five floors, that could hold about six hundred and twenty-five people in each building, where all the inmates can be seen from one central guard tower, with nowhere to hide - there was zero privacy for them.

But when the Council brought the place, they made huge changes to the place. The first thing that changed was that instead of five floors full of cells, there was only four, what used to be the third floor for cells was modified to be used for something else. Now the floors with cells on was heavily altered, instead of one hundred and twenty-five cells for each floor, there was sixty cells, the cells were altered so that the prisoners had some privacy. And whilst there was still the central guard tower, there was a guards room on each floor so that should something happen, a small group of guards could be sent to deal with the problem.

Now as for the third floor, that was altered to be like an area for the prisoners could relax, have fun, exercise and take their baths. This was done as the Dark Mystics and other Magical Criminals couldn't be trusted to be let out of the building in case they tried to escape. The buildings were lined with magical stone that stops people using magic. Only the guards with amplifiers which allow them to use magic could do so. Now the people that were sent here were the low risk criminals, those who whilst posed a risk, were ones that the Mystic Council thought won't likely to be risk of escaping and would do their time before being let free.

For the high classed criminals, the Powerful Criminals, the Dark Lords and Ladies, and their powerful followers, those who would try to escape or someone would break them out of prison - the Mystic Council built something else to hold them. So they brought the biggest oil tanker that they could, and redesigned it to hold the high powered and dangerous Dark Mystics, and that are high risk of them escaping or being rescued. So with it being lined with anti-magic wards and metal, and with a prison that moves, they hope that escaping or being rescued would be near impossible.

And to make sure that it was, only the Mystic Council and the small crew that would be driving the ship would know where the ship was. The guards and the rest of the crew wouldn't know where they were, as they would remain within the ship. The only time they would see the outdoors, would be when their time on the prison was over.

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22nd of March 2007 - St. Gregory's Primary School:

Now of all the Mystics that was on the island, we're going to concentrate on one particular Mystic, a twenty-three-year-old Ichigo Tora. His parents were Andrea and Haru, two people who used to live on Salus before it was attacked and came to Mystic Island. Haru could bend any metal to his will, making into anything he wanted and as sharp he wanted, on Salus, he was a Magical Blacksmith, who created farm tools, weapons and anything else the village needed. When he got to Mystic Island, he became the Blacksmith for them. In fact he was one of the most skilled in his arts, and one of the few Magical Blacksmiths who was able to create magical cards that had different powers to them.

As for Andrea, until Ichigo was six years old, she looked after him. But once he turned six, she decided to join the Mystic Knights, to help protect the people of the island, and those with powers all over the world. Whilst she had no real power, she did have her husband's equipment that he created. Whilst normally you would have to have powers to become a Mystic Knight, there are times as long as you were skilled enough in combat, and could use magical weapons, you still could join them and Andrea was not only skilled in combat, but could also use magical weapons too. Henry told them that in Earthland, she would be considered as a Magic Item User, someone who had power to use magical items.

Sadly Andrea died when Ichigo was ten years old, she was killed by Witch Hunters when she was investigating a possible sighting. But it was a trap set up by the Witch Hunters, in the hopes that the Mystics would fall for so that they could kill them, as they knew that they couldn't pass up a possible knew Mystic added to them group. With the death of his mother, Ichigo vowed he wouldn't join the Mystic Knights, as he didn't want to have his father worrying about losing his son. But deep down Ichigo wanted to be a Knight too, as he wanted to help people like his mother did, but he also didn't want to upset and worry his father.

At of the age of seven, Ichigo gained the power over Darkness/Shadow when he began to read DC comics. He was reading about a character known as The Shade, who had control over Darkness/Shadow. And although Shade was evil, Ichigo liked the idea behind the power and begun to teach himself to use Darkness/Shadow. After starting to learn and control, he started Mystic High, where he studied, and learnt how to control his new powers.

There were ups and downs in his life, like the death of his mother when he took badly, and for a while he used his powers to bully those around him. But after a year or so, having a run in with the Mystic Knights and having a big talk with his father, he changed his ways. As he worked his differences out, and become a better person, he learnt to become a Blacksmith like his father so that he could work along with him.

And that what he did, after Mystic High, he joined his father in the underwater domes where he worked as a Blacksmith. Although he enjoyed working with his father, he felt as if something was missing from his life. It wasn't until he was twenty and talked to his father about it, and his father told him about what he was missing: the adventure in life. He was a Mystic, and one thing that most Mystics crave for and that was adventure and using their powers. Some take up the challenge of the Colosseum, where they fight each other to see who is the strongest. Whilst that would do for some of the Mystics, the others loved to travel the world and see what is out there. Whilst some do so by themselves, others join the Mystic Academy, because as a Mystic Knight the Academy would pay for you to travel the world as long as you do the missions that they set for you.

Although Haru would prefer that he didn't become a Mystic Knight like his wife, he knew that Ichigo was too much like his mother and the Mystic Academy would help him make him feel that he belonged. It would help with the feeling that he has got. And so after talking to his father, Ichigo joined the Mystic Academy. During his time there, he picked the name Erebus for his code-name, after the God of Darkness.

It was three later, and now just a month ago he had graduated from the Academy and now he was out on his first solo mission. To understand what the Mystic Knights do, he was sent to one of the Mystic Task Force groups in London, and work with them for a few months. And today he was sent to Surrey to investigate of a possible Mystic who was meant to be missing their powers. His instructions were to find this Mystic and determine their reasons for their blatant misuse of magic, and if it wasn't for ill gains but survival, to bring them in so they can help the young Mystic.

Little was known about this Mystic, other than they were in their pre-teens, a Earth Mystic - someone who can control earth - and they were living or hiding somewhere in Surrey, misusing their powers. The reason behind the misuse wasn't clear. It could be because they felt they had no other option to defend themselves from something, they weren't sure how to control their power and it was getting away from them, or if they were doing it because they thought it fun and believed that there was no one around who could stop them.

Seeing that this Earth Mystic was meant a pre-teen, Mystic Knight Erebus thought that they might attained one of the schools in the area, and so here he was passing by St. Gregory's Primary School. Making a quick look around the area before he decides what he should do next, Thinking it could have something to do with the Earth Mystic, he decided to investigate. Since he did not wish to be seen, the shadow manipulator wrapped himself in shadows and set off to discover the source or the noise.

When he arrived on the scene, he saw five children chasing after a lone child with unruly black hair and glasses. Instantly recognizing what was going on, Erebus cursed his standing orders to not interfere with non-magical affairs except to save a life.

Having had some experience with bullies in his own past, being one himself and being bullied too, Erebus had no desire to watch what would happen to the young boy since he had now been cornered in a narrow passage between two buildings. He actually started to leave to continue his search for the Earth Mystics once again when he felt wild magic coming from the boy. Someone who has been well trained, like Mystic Knight Erebus, leaves very little evidence behind when they used magic. An untrained person, however, left a lot of magical energy behind whenever they use their magic.

With training, you could track someone by the magical signature they left behind. That was actually how Erebus hoped to find the Earth Mystic, by finding some evidence of their magic, then following it to its source. Erebus was unaware of any other Mystics in the area, but this boy was throwing off a huge amount of energy. Because of this, Erebus fell back on another standing order from his superiors; namely, should they happen to discover a young magic user, they were meant to bring them to headquarters to see if they had the potential to become a Mystic.

Erebus thought back on his own early years as he watched the black haired boy use accidental magic to Apparate away from the boys chasing him. From his vantage point hiding in a nearby shadow, Erebus was able to see when Harry appeared on the roof of the kitchen. When he saw Harry reappear, Erebus decided to move to a closer shadow so that he could hear what the boy was saying - he could see that he was speaking, but couldn't hear the words - and maybe even introduce himself.

When he moved closer, however, it appeared as though the boy was talking to himself, except that he seemed to be having a conversation and Erebus could only hear one side of it.

"Oh, come on Lucy. It was just a stronger than usual gust of wind," Erebus heard the young boy half-heartedly denied. "I'm so scrawny that I'll bet it's possible for the wind to help carry me. I'm sure that's all it was. I'm not like David."

Erebus wasn't sure who this boy was, or who he was talking to, and wondered if the boy was alright in the head, or was wondering if he was talking to an imaginary friend. He seemed to be at the age where having one was a possibility.

As he watched, he saw that the boy was in a deep thought about something, when he suddenly asked out loud to whoever he was talking to, "So, if it is magic, do you really think I can 'Jump' like David in Jumper?" asked Harry.

Just as Erebus was about to come out of the shadows to talk to the young boy, he felt a surge in magical energy right before the boy stepped to the edge of the roof, and disappeared. At first glance, Erebus thought that the boy had Apparated. But upon closer inspection, however, Erebus noticed a strange amount of magical energy floating in the air where the boy had stood a moment before. There was no doubt in Erebus's mind. This kid could easily become a Mystic with a little training.

As soon as he realized this, the Shadow Mystic removed a small orb from his pocket. He cleared his throat before speaking, "Headquarters, this is Mystic Knight Erebus, come in."

"Mystic Knight Erebus. Report," the image of a lady in her mid-twenties appeared on the surface of the orb to match the voice he heard. "Have you found the Earth Mystic already?"

"No, not yet Mystic Ruby. I'm still searching the area." replied Erebus, the female Mystic was a controller at Headquarters, she wasn't a Mystic Knight, and she was one of the few non-Mystic Knights who knew more than the others.

"Then why are you calling?" queried Mystic Ruby.

"I believe I have found another candidate for Mystic training."

"Oh really?" Mystic Ruby perked up considerably at this news. Whilst Mystics won't rare now days, they just don't suddenly appear in an area when there was no reports of anything strange going on, the chances of just stumbling upon a new Mystic were unlike. "Any idea what powers this new Mystic might have?"

"No. From what I've seen and heard, he has just realized he has magic" explained the Shadow Manipulator.

"Do you still have eyes on him?"

"No, he just Apparated away." Erebus replied before going on to give a full report of what he had seen and heard.

As he finished his report, Erebus noticed that Ruby looked worried. "Mystic Ruby, what's wrong?"

"I can't say for sure without seeing it for myself, but from what you said I don't believe that the child Apparated. I believe he accomplished something called Jumping. That shouldn't be possible," Ruby replied worriedly. "Jumping is a skill from a movie that isn't supposed to come out until next year."

"What do you mean, Mystic Ruby?"

"There's a film coming out next year called Jumper," Ruby explained.

She gave a short synopsis of the plot of the film. The Paladins from the movie reminded Erebus quite a bit of the Witch Hunters the Mystics often faced, Erebus wondered to himself if the person who wrote the book and allowed it to be made into a movie was somehow associated with the real Paladins.

Erebus was pulled from his introspection as Ruby continued, "Once the film comes out, we're expecting quite a few people in the magical community to try to learn this skill. When we heard about the film we had some of our non-magical contacts put the film on hold for a short time, while we experimented to see if it was a skill that was possible to learn."

"Well, obviously it is possible, since I just saw a child do it." Erebus replied, not really understanding what the problem was.

"That's part of what's troubling me. It took quite some time for us, and out of the two hundred Mystics who attempted to learn this skill, only approximately fifty have succeeded," Ruby explained. "We still aren't sure why only those fifty could learn it when others couldn't, since it doesn't take much power. It does, however, require a lot more control and concentration than regular Apparition. So, for a child to have the control and concentration necessary to learn such a tricky is quite amazing."

"I'm afraid I don't quite understand your worry, Mystic Ruby," Erebus said. "According to you it is harder to learn, and master, than Apparition and only one quarter of the Mystics who tried to learn it were able to. I agree that it's impressive that this child can do it, but I don't understand your concern."

"The problem, Mystic Knight Erebus," Ruby began, "is that, so far, we are unable to ward against it. Jumping seems to be an entirely new kind of teleportation skill that somehow bypasses the wards and barriers that stop normal Apparition."

"Ok. Now your worry makes sense," Erebus replied. Luckily they still had some time to learn a counter to this new magic since the movie wasn't due out until next year, but it was still alarming and could easily become a problem. The magical community had criminals just like any other, and the thought of criminal wizards getting their hands on a new type of teleportation magic that couldn't be stopped worried the Mystic Knight greatly.

"Any ideas yet?" Erebus asked hopefully.

"Not really, no," Mystic Ruby said with a sigh. "So far the only preventative measure we've been able to come up with is, like in the movie, shock the person with a high voltage charge. We've had success with charges between 200 Volts and 340 Volts stopping Jumping; of course that level of electricity is enough to kill a non-magical human, so it's not hard to imagine it incapacitating a magical one. With that much electricity running through their body, even our strongest Mystics were incapable of casting any spells. The only exception, of course, was Mystic Knight Barbara, since lightning was her element and electrocuting her was completely useless. But aside from her, pretty much the only defence against Jumping we have so far is to make the user unable to cast any magic. If we can contain them, then we are able to put the magical bands on them which prevent them from doing anything."

"So, in light of this, any new orders for me?" Mystic Knight Erebus asked.

"No. This new child you found hasn't done anything yet. Our first priority is to find the Earth Mystic. Whoever it is has been causing us too much trouble forcing us to cover up for him/her. We need you to track them down and try to make them realize what they are doing wrong. We work too hard at keeping our existence a secret to be outed by some preteen punk." Mystic Ruby responded, her voice growing stronger as she got back on familiar ground. "But, I do want you to keep your eyes and ears open for any new information about this new young magic user that you can find. I need to find out how a child was able to get his hands on a movie that wasn't supposed to be out until next year. We need to know if this was an isolated incident, or if we are going to have to worry about Jumping before any of us are ready for it. Good hunting Mystic Knight Erebus…"

"Oh! I almost forgot," Mystic Ruby exclaimed right as she was about to end the magical communication. "Make sure to be extra careful around this new magical child if he really does have an imaginary friend."

"Seriously Mystic Ruby? Why should I be afraid of an imaginary friend?" Erebus asked, wondering what possible harm a young boy's imagination could cause.

"Unlike a normal imaginary friend from a non-magical, an imaginary friend that has been created by a magical person, especially one strong enough to have Mystic Potential, are sometimes quite different," explained Ruby. "The magic can at times make the imaginary friend almost a completely separate entity. They can see things that their creator cannot, they are capable of independent thought, and if the creator is strong enough, some are even capable of using magic to defend their creator. So just be careful when following this new candidate. It might be quite difficult to make a good first impression if his imaginary friend spots you following them."

"Understood, Mystic Ruby. I'll make sure that the kid never sees me, until I'm ready to make first contact. Good day. Mystic Knight Erebus signing off," said Mystic Erebus. He was amazed at the new things he learned every day. Imagine, an invisible, imaginary friend that could do all of those things. After a few moments, Erebus slipped the now blank orb back into his pocket. He decided that, since he was already at the school, he might as well look around. With a practiced move that only hinted at the thousands of times he had done it, Erebus wrapped the nearby shadows around himself and slipped into the school to look for the school records of the amazing child he had seen.

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It was late evening as Mystic Knight Erebus strode purposefully down the halls of the Mystic Academy, which other than being a school for Mystic Knights but was also the headquarters of the Mystic Knights. It had been a busy few hours since Erebus found the potential new Mystic, and since then he had been trying to find out as much as he could about the young boy - what Erebus found shocked him.

He started off looking through St. Gregory's Primary School records to discover the identity of the new Mystic. It had taken two hours to find the records, as someone had taken upon themselves to hide them well, even going as far as using some low powered magic to hide the information. But after an hour of searching, Erebus found something that shocked him profoundly, especially since he was not expecting such a being to exist in such an environment - the new perpetual Mystic was none other than Harry Potter himself. He now understood why there would be someone using magic to try and hide the information.

Knowing that the higher ups would want to know more, Erebus began his search for the Boy-Who-Lived. He started by going to Potter's address, but was shocked that there was a powerful ward within a mile radius of Potter's home, blocking all forms magical transportation into the area. And a mild ward alert that should, if Erebus was to cross the wardline, inform someone he was there. So not knowing how the wardline worked, he decided to see if he could find Potter elsewhere before reporting in.

It was half an hour later before he found the young Potter who talking to thin air, who Erebus suspected was most likely his Imaginary Friend. However, he did not have permission to introduce himself to the boy yet, so he followed Potter in the shadows, observing him - to see if he could find out what other powers the young boy might have. Where after a few hours of following the boy -who just wandering around, playing and talking to his Imaginary friend- Potter started to walk back home.

Erebus followed the young Potter past the wards, which he luckily enough didn't trigger, and stepped out of the shadows as he got to the first ward, pretending to just be another pedestrian as he continued to follow Potter on foot. But as he got two blocks from Potter's home, he got to a more powerful ward, where, should he cross it, he would have been found out. And so after carefully checking who casted the wards, he went off to report his findings to the Mystic Council.

So here he was at Mystic Academy to see the Mystic Council to inform them what he had found. He was shocked though that out of all of the Mystics at Mystic Academy looking for Harry Potter, it was he who found him, and he was only a Mystic Knight for about a month. As he realized this, his thoughts drifted off about how he got here in the first place, and about what he had learnt over the years, but mainly what he had learnt since he entered Mystic Academy. Oh he knew there was things that he didn't know, and won't until he becomes a Mystic Templar. But he was willing to work for it.

Erebus was momentarily jolted from his thoughts when he realized he had taken a wrong turn. He quickly found the correct hallway and started down it, soon finding himself standing before the Councillor's Secretary's desk.

"Mystic Knight Erebus here to see the Council." Erebus stated formally.

"The Council is currently in session, Mystic Knight Erebus." the Mystic Secretary responded, reminding Erebus about the meeting, one that unless it was an emergency, the Council Meeting shouldn't be disturb.

"Yes, I realize that," Erebus responded, "I have a very urgent matter that I must discuss with them directly."

"Very well. Take a seat and I will call you as soon as they are ready for you."

"Thank you, Mystic Flame."

Erebus settled into a comfortable chair to wait for the Council to see him, and continued his thoughts about the past and what he had learnt from his mentor.

Erebus thoughts about what he learnt over the last three years were interrupted, when he heard the voice of the Assistant say, "The council is ready to see you now."

"Thank you." Erebus replied with a small bow, as he stood up and collected himself before moving through the double doors and into the council chamber.

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Just as Erebus entered the council chamber, he found himself in a circular room, it had two floors, and the upper floor had a hole in it where Erebus could see many shelves and bookshelves. The room had many windows that were heavily charmed to prevent dangers from outside harming those within, but allowed for the action to be seen and heard by all. The floor and walls were made of marble, and if Erebus wasn't mistaken, saw a few runes carving for protection and to keep out people trying to listening into them.

As he got farther into the chamber, he saw that there were two crescent stairs descending on either side of the room almost like a lover's arms with dark red carpeting to allow minimal noise from shuffling feet that encircled the room. There were two uncomfortable looking chairs for visitors to sit, but the real action was held in the centre of the room.

In five portions of the circle, broken apart only for space to walk through, there were glimmering tables designed like desks, showing their acceptance of all that was considered a good idea. Each desk table had room for X NUMBER of officials with their own inventions, monitors, data communications and panels for various things that sitting members may need. And at the far end of the circle, there was a large crescent table where the top ten High-Templar's were seating. In the middle of the large crescent table, was a podium standing tall, proud and imposing, where people those who wanted to have their say.

Either way, the chamber was full which meant they were having a full meeting, sighing, kneeling on one knee, Erebus bowed his head as he said, "Mystic Knight Erebus, reporting before the council. Thank you for agreeing to see me on such short notice."

"Yes, Mystic Knight. It is short notice. I realize when we made you a Knight last month that we told you that you could come to us with anything, but we didn't expect 'anything' to be so soon." Erebus heard the voice of High-Templar Jennifer Carter say to him. "Rise, Knight, and tell us how we can help you."

Mystic Knight Erebus rose to his feet, incredibly nervous as he notice the twins and the other High-Templar's, who were looking at him with curious expressions on their faces. He began to wrap himself in shadow, a defence mechanism for whenever he was nervous, but stopped himself since doing so in the council chambers would be incredibly rude. Clearing his throat and gathering his nerves, he addressed the council.

"I bring news about a Potential Mystic I encountered today…" he began.

"Was it the Earth Elemental you were sent to find?" interrupted a female known as Templar Storm, from one of the desks. She was in her forties, who greying red hair, with blue eyes, she also had a scar across her left cheek. Her name and her powers came from the comic X-Men, like the character Storm, she was able to control the weather to a great agree.

"No, Templar Storm, it wasn't. It was a young boy that attends St. Gregor's Primary School." Erebus replied before making a complete report of everything he had witnessed, up until the point when Harry had Apparated away.

"While I agree that this your child has incredible potential, I must ask why you brought the matter before us? Surely this information could have been passed along to the Mystic Registration Office?" a Mystic known as High-Templar Hawkman. He was a Bird-man Mystic, someone who looked like a bird, or in this case a hawk. At first Hawkman wanted to be like Hawkman from the DC comic by the same name, and he was able to, however he wanted one stop more and be able to turn into a hawk too. However though, something went wrong, and he became a hybrid of human and hawk, and was unable to transform back.

"The reason for my coming straight to the Council, High-Templar Hawkman, is because of what I discovered after the child left. I entered the school and searched through their records until I found his identity." Erebus replied.

"And? Who is he?" Kimberly Carter queried, who like her twin sister was in her sixties, and had blonde hair.

"Harry Potter." was Erebus's only reply.

An astonished gasp ran through the council.

"Are you sure?"

"Did you verify?"

"Where does he live?"

"What was his condition?"

"I thought he would be out of the country by now."

The questions came at him from every direction at once, leaving Erebus momentarily disoriented as to who to answer first. Whilst finding a new Mystic was a good thing, for it being someone like Harry Potter, or otherwise known as the Boy-Who-Lived was a political nightmare. The Wizarding World would think that they had stole him from them, and teach him things they still didn't agree with. This was going to be political nightmare for them when the news came out. Suddenly, finally, High-Templar Jennifer Carter's Mental Call sang out through the council, asking each person for silence.

"Now, I apologize for that, Knight Erebus. Please, continue and tell us how you discovered this." Jennifer said when everyone had calmed down.

"No apology necessary, High-Templar Carter. Of course I will explain." Erebus said with a bow of his head, as he went on to explain, "When I first found his file, I was astonished. I know that we have been looking for the Boy-Who-Lived for years now, so I didn't want to return unless I knew for sure that this was really the Boy-Who-Lived. So I went off in search for the boy.

"First I went to his home address to see if I could find him there, but I was hit by a ward of some kind, preventing me from using my shadows to travel across the line. So I decided to look around the area before crossing the wardline, to see if I could find the boy. It didn't take long before I found him. But since I had no permission to introduce myself to him at the time, I simply followed in the shadows, observing. He spent several hours, seemingly by himself, just wandering around and playing. However, he was constantly talking to somebody called Lucy. I can only assume that it is the Imaginary Friend he created. Because of Mystic Ruby's warning about the possible powers such a creation might have, I kept myself invisible.

"Finally, around dusk, he headed home. I followed behind and noticed that he was going to the address listed in his file. I followed him past the wardline with ease as I followed him on foot, but I was quite surprised when I got two blocks to his home when I felt a more powerful ward, with an alert ward connected to it. So not wanting to alert whoever casted the ward, I didn't cross it.

"But as I was following him, I was able to get a good enough look at his face to notice a scar on his forehead, in the shape of a lightning bolt. While I was unable to 100% verify, I truly believe that this child is Harry Potter, and from checking the wards surrounding area, I found out they were done by none other than Albus Dumbledore."

"Thank you Mystic Knight Erebus, it was very interesting." Kimberly Carter said after he had finished his report. "If Dumbledore is a very talented Wizard, and if he is involved in the warding around a Mundane Area, then I would have to agree with you, Knight Erebus, you have found Harry Potter. Not only that, but it would seem that young Potter has a Psychic Entity Creation or P.E.C."

"A what?" asked Erebus.

"A Psychic Entity Creation," High-Templar Kimberly Carter repeated, "it is a name we given to Imaginary Friends from a few of the magical kids who have them, they seemed to react differently to normal Imaginary Friends. I'll admit the name needs work, but we not long started to research these magical Imaginary Friends, and still working on a name for them."

"What can these Psychic Entity Creation do?" asked the Shadow Mystic, wondering if they knew more than he already knew about them from Mystic Ruby.

"We don't really know," said Kimberly's twin, "as my sister said, we only started to research them. From what we can tell, they are rare, I think if Harry Potter has one, he would be the tenth one to have one. They can see things that their creation cannot, they have their own intelligence, other than that we don't know what they can do. Although from two of kids who had one, they seem to be able to interact with the caster, as if they were really there."

"Thank you for tell me this, and for hearing my report, but if I may, I've got two questions for the council…" at a slight nod from Jennifer, Erebus continued. "What are we going to do about Harry now? Also, I know that he is known as the Boy-Who-Lived because he somehow survived the attack by Voldemort when he was young, but why is he so important to us?"

"I'll answer your second question first, but what I'm going to tell you is confidential, is that understood?" Jennifer responded, in which Erebus nodded his head. "As you know, we have a few Mages from Earthland who teach their magic to the Mystic Knights like yourself. But what you don't know is that sometimes a few Dark Mages are able to get from Earthland to parts of our world, even if their Mages keep watch on the exits of their land so such things don't happen. But like many places, if you look carefully you can make your own exit, find an exit that no one knew about or one that is not well guarded, like some of these Dark Mages are able to do.

"Well, many years ago a Dark Mage was able to make his way off of Earthland, where he came across a young Wizard with immense power. The child was named Tom Riddle, and as a young boy, he was already consciously using his magic, either for his own gain or on the people around him. Sadly the Mystics won't created at the time, if we were, things might have been different."

Here Kimberly carried on with the history lesson about Voldemort, "This Dark Mage slowly begun teaching Tom on how to better control his magic, and after a while, begun to teach him the Darkness Magic, and a few other Earthland's Spells. He trained young Tom slowly, so that he didn't want to alert the other Mages as to what they were doing. He even hid Tom's existence from the Ministry of Magic, until it was time to learn about Hogwarts. He feared, since the boy was an orphan, that the Ministry would make him forget everything about his magic and thus rob the world of a Dark Lord that the Dark Mage was trying to create. Once Tom started Hogwarts, the Mage kept in touch with Tom through owls.

"We don't know why, but during Tom´s fourth year summer break, another Mage who gifted in mental magic looked into young Tom's mind and saw darkness inside him. They saw that he, along with the Dark Mage, had already committed several crimes, and Tom was building a small group of followers.

"We don't know what happened to the Dark Mage, if he returned to Earthland, or Tom killed him or they went their own ways, but over the following years, Tom travelled the world. Searching for more power, power to destroy and control the world. Whilst he learnt magic from a Dark Mage from Earthland, he never stopped using a wand, but he did grow incredibly powerful, for a Wanded Wizard. Eventually after years of travelling, he returned to England and began to build a power base, but this time under the name Lord Voldemort. He spread death and destruction everywhere as he seized power. Even with the help of the Mystics Knights, it looked like Voldemort was still going to win. We even asked the help of the Earthland Mages for help, but apart for a handful, the rest were so accustomed to hiding in the shadows, that they were hesitant to act.

"It was in the final months of the war, that the Mages decided that they needed to confront Voldemort. But, before they were able to, the Dark Lord attacked the Potter's, where somehow he was defeated by young Harry and disappeared. Before anyone knew it, Dumbledore showed up and took Harry away to somewhere safe. We´ve been searching for him for years, as his mother apart for being a Witch, was also a Mystic too and we thought that young Harry might be one too.

"So as for your first question, what are we going to do about Harry? We'll find out if he really is a potential Mystic, and if he is off him a place here at Mystic Island like any other child we find. As for what to do in the immediate future, the Council will need discuss that, and make a decision at a later date. Is there anything you feel is necessary to add to your report, Knight Erebus?"

For a few moments Erebus didn't say anything as he thought about what he just learnt, he and a few others wondered how the Dark Lord and his men were able to get so strong, strong enough to keep up with the best of the Mystic-Knights and Mystic-Templar's. He and the other Knights often wondered how they were able to do this, but now Erebus realized what happened - Voldemort had taught them what the Dark Mage taught him to fight the Mystic Knights. It would explain a few things from what he heard about the last war.

However, back to things at hand, he was going to say he had nothing else to report when he thought of something that the Boy-Who-Lived said back at the rooftop of the school. "I think there is something High-Templar Carter," Erebus said with a bow, "I didn't think about it at the time, but I heard Harry call what he did as something called Jumping, from a film called Jumper. A film that Mystic Ruby told me shouldn't be out until next year."

"And she would be right." High-Templar Hawkman explained with a sigh, "Whilst it happens from time to time, I had thought that licking of films with superpowers had been dealt with a while back. I'll have my people look into this once we done with this meeting, thanks for informing us about this. Is there anything else you would like to tell us?"

"No, High-Templar Hawkman, that is all." Erebus said with a bow of his head, "I would like to thank you for taking the time to hear my report and answering my questions."

"You are welcome, Knight. Return to whatever duties your immediate superiors have assigned you. You are dismissed."

Mystic Knight Erebus offered a bow to the council before turning and walking from the Council Chambers. As the doors closed behind him, he could hear the voices of the councillors raise as they discussed what to do about the young Harry Potter.

To be Continued!

Author's Note: Here ends another chapter of the Side-Story of Overlord Vulcan, I thank you for reading and I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. I hope you like the introduction of Erebus, he'll be the main character for this story for a while. If you got any ideas for him or this story, please let me know.

The next chapter will be the last for a while, as I'll be working on the main story. In the next chapter it'll be mainly a filler, until Erebus meets Harry on Mystic Island. We'll also see one of the OCs that you the reader give me in this case it was from Integrated from fanfiction dot net:

Name: Marty Dixon

Age: 7

Appearance: Marty is an athletic boy. He tends to wear shorts and t-shirts. His shoes are new and have flashing lights. He has a well-worn baseball cap on whenever possible. His hair is dark brown and eyes hazel.

Personality: Marty is like many young boys extremely excitable. He loves to play and has a slightly larger rebellious streak than most his age. Still, he is a very lovable and innocent boy.

History: Marty comes from a very well of family. His father works as a bank manager and his mother stays home to care for him and his older sister and younger brother. He does well in school and has many friends. Like many other boys his age he has a history of getting into trouble and going places he shouldn't but has never really done anything worse than climb a tree he shouldn't have.

When Marty discovered pokemon, he fell in love with it. Then, while playing pretend as a pokemon with his friends, he actually performed an attack. While trying to be a squirtle Marty shot a stream of water out of his mouth, surprising him and his friends. This was naturally the best thing to ever happen to them. After playing around more, Marty discovered to his dismay that he could not do any of the really cool attacks, only the really weak ones.

After getting home for lunch, Marty told his mother all about what he could do. She didn't believe him until he spat out an ember onto the floor, burning a hole. Startled and frightened, his mother called his father, getting him to come home to deal with an unnamed emergency. Marty's father didn't believe the story either until he was hit in the face by a stream of water too long to be normal.

After a heated debate between his parents, Marty was told to stop playing with his powers and to never show them to anybody else (they feared he would be taken away for testing). He begrudgingly accepted their command and kept it for two days until he started playing around with it in secret.

Powers: Marty has the potential to use any pokemon move or ability and develop an extremely strong and durable body. This potential comes with a great deal of difficulty to learn any more than the basics. While basic moves are easy, they can hardly do any damage. Anything of real use will take extensive training, the type a seven year old would abhor.

Weaknesses: Marty's greatest weaknesses is his youth, hard to use powers, and the magic requirements for strong moves. The amount of training required to become good at pokemon moves leaves very little time for training in other arts.

Alignment: Good, Marty's parents have been able to instill a basic moral compass in him that survives despite any rebellion. He knows when he does something naughty but would never do anything really bad.

Might change the history around a bit, but the main bit is there… and I might add one or two more into the chapter, we'll see what happens soon enough.

I'm still looking for OCs for the Mystics, please look at Prologue for the character sheet I made up, and Demons born from the Books of Zeref. So if you have any ideas, please let me know, the character sheet for the demons can be found in chapter two, so please look there.

So once again thank you for reading this story, and I hope you enjoy the story. If you did, please spare me a few moments and review, as I would like to hear what you think of this so far.

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