Harry the Qwaser

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Seikon no Qwaser/ Qwaser of stigmata

Chapter 14

"So what exactly is soma?" Hermione asked to begin their discussion.

"In truth no one is exactly sure what soma is, but it is believed that soma is related to the life force of a human being," Harry answered as best he could, given the lack of knowledge about soma.

"So when you suck out the soma you're really drinking the life force of the girl?" Hermione questioned, shock evident in her voice over the piece of information.

"In theory yes we are."

"So when you drink my life force does that shorten my life span?" Hermione asked in fear that she had inadvertently shortened her life.

"We don't think so, over the thousand or so years that qwasers have existed almost all of the marias that died of natural causes had lived to be quite old," Harry looked towards the roof of the compartment in an attempt to remember a stray fact, and failed to notice that his words had caused Hermione to calm down. "Some of the marias who lived during the Middle Ages are recorded as having lived into their 50s when the life expectancy was around 35," Harry finished having remembered the tidbit of information.

"So you don't think you're sucking my life away, but no one knows for certain?" While calmer Hermione was still nervous, and decided to confirm her theory.

"Correct, but it is strongly believed having a qwaser suck soma out of you is identical to breastfeeding. The milk inside your breasts is life giving nourishment for a baby just like the soma is life giving nourishment for a qwaser."

"Alright that makes sense, but using that logic wouldn't you need to regularly suck soma from a maria for your entire life?"

"Well yes and no. It's true that I will have to regularly drink soma for the rest of my life if I don't want to die, but I only needed to start drinking soma when I activated my powers for the first time."

"What happened?"

"Well when I was 6 years old, I was attacked," Harry started. Despite the church constantly talking about forgiveness they also talk about smiting the wicked and evil, and to Harry his uncle was the face of evil. For that alone Harry always made sure to never include his uncle when he had to retell this story. Not even in memory would his uncle have the pleasure of hitting him ever again. "During this attack I summoned a lump of iron out of the ground, hit the man right in the head, and knocked him out."

"Well I hope he got what was coming to him," Hermione said as she envisioned the man who attacked her friend in jail.

"I don't know what happened to him after the attack because I passed out, but I've been told rumors that someone resembling him was arrested for trying to sell his wife," Harry said as he happily thought about his uncle locked away somewhere.

Hermione while not liking the news that her dear friend had been attacked was at least content to know that his attacker was gone. It was in their quiet reflection that she remembered Harry saying how he got out of that situation, and once again launched into asking questions.

"You said you hit him with a lump of iron so where did you get the soma for that?"

"From what I can gather I pretty sure that I had control of iron from sucking soma from my mum while she nursed me as a baby," Harry explained as he gave a light smile at the thought of his mother. But Harry quickly pulled himself out of his remembrance to finish tell his story. "I'm told that the priest who witnessed me controlling iron was really confused because the current qwaser of iron was alive and healthy."

"Yeah you mentioned that there is only one qwaser for each element at any given time right. So finding a qwaser that could control an already claimed element must have been weird. I bet everybody was curious how you did it."

"Well it is true that everybody was curious about what happened, and after they found out I was a wizard many of them just claimed I had summoned the iron instead of controlled it like a qwaser. It was only after we figured out that my element was dependent on my maria did everybody calm down," Harry finished as he chuckled at the memory of the Vatican being in an uproar when he had first arrived.

Hermione soon also began to laugh as she imagined the calm Harry she was used to, sitting in a chair as different scientists ran around him in panic. The image brought a smile to her face as she tried to keep her laughter from becoming too loud. Eventually the two did get their laughter under control as a peaceful quiet began to spread over them.

The two of them were soon brought out of their quiet moment when a soft knock on their compartment door revealed the trolley witch beginning her rounds. Hermione opened the door to buy a sugar quill. Harry politely waved the friendly witch on as he had already received his share of candy for helping the Weasley twins during their most recent trip to Hogsmeade. As Hermione happily sucked on her treat Harry decided against revealing his own candy supply. Knowing how cross Hermione could be with rule breaking he was not to keen on explaining how he came across the treats. Harry figured it was best to enjoy them later.

Closing the door and with treat in hand Hermione once again began thinking about her friends powers. "I've been wondering about something else to do with soma Harry," Hermione spoke up after a few minutes of comfortable silence. "Is soma only useful for allowing you to control elements or are their other uses. Like maybe converting it into electricity and powering a telly."

"I'm not really sure if it would be possible to convert soma to electricity, but there is something else that can be done with soma," Harry answered after a few seconds of thought over her questions. Lifting up his hand Harry drew Hermione's attention to the red stone earring hanging from his left ear. "It's possible to extract soma and crystallize it."

"I had always wondered what that was," Hermione said as she moved in closer to look at the red stone hanging from Harry's ear. "How do you extract soma?"

"As I've said girls naturally produce soma inside their bodies and release it through their breast. Since soma has no physical properties the only way to collect it is inside of breast milk."

Hermione looked down at her own chest and blushed at the thought of milk coming out of her. And what that would mean. "If I remember correctly you didn't suck any milk during that time on Halloween."

"Qwasers can draw out soma by itself, but we need to use it instantly or it just evaporates into the air. The only way to collect soma is inside of breast milk. Breast milk also has a larger amount of soma inside of it."

"So if I was lactating you could get more soma out of me?" Hermione asked, being interested in the prospect.

"Not really. A qwaser can only hold a certain amount of soma, but if you were to lactate I would be able to extract soma at a much faster rate. This is a good thing, especially inside of a fight, and because of that most qwasers prefer marias that lactate ."

"So if you had some breast milk it would give you more soma, and you could save the soma for a latter time," Hermione stated more to herself than her friend.

"Exactly, in fact storing the soma is the main reason we crystallize it."

"So solid soma can do other things?"

"When soma is crystallized into what we call sage stone, the process has some side effects. The first thing needed in order to produce sage stones is a lot of soma. Once all of the soma is gathered it's compressed and crystallized into the sage stone, but because of the amount needed to make decent sized stone there's more soma inside the stone than a qwaser can usually ingest," Harry explained while he took off his earring to hand to Hermione.

The bushy haired girl examined the stone from every angle as she rotated it between her fingers. While she was fascinated that something that could come out of her body was able to be turned into such a beautiful gem she was still interested in what Harry had to say and urged him on.

"Since we can't add the soma to our reserves like we normally would our body begins to use it immediately and gives a quick boost to our powers. However that power boost does have some serious drawbacks," Harry said while Hermione focused her whole attention on him. "Once the power goes away we can suffer from fatigue, nausea, illness," Harry trailed off here not really wanting Hermione to hear about the other side effects like the uncontrollable rage and spontaneous insanity. Thankfully Hermione didn't pry any further as she gave the stone back to Harry, who reattached it to his ear, while she went back to her sugar quill.

It was only a few minutes after the two had fallen into a comfortable silence, as Hermione considered her next question, when suddenly there was a knock on their door and two familiar red heads stepped into the compartment.

"Hey Harry, here to give you our thanks for helping us out earlier," the twin on the left said.

"We couldn't have moved all those heavy boxes without your help," the other twin stated. Referring to one of their latest trips to Hogsmeade, but trying to keep any listeners out of the loop.

"So we come bearing gifts of finest gold," the pair started trading sentences again.

"From out of the farthest reach of normal Hogwarts students."

"We present to you, one beautiful case of butterbeer," the twins finished off together as they pulled bottles from behind them.

Unfortunately before the bottles could be passed off to Harry, they were interrupted when the door being blocked by the twins, was thrown open with a loud crash. When said twins separated to show an annoyed looking Draco Malfoy, who seemed to have regained some of his smugness from earlier in the year. As he strolled farther into the cabin pass the two perturbed twins.

"Father says that I should come and tell you that since it's break and as per the deal I am no longer your slave until next year when we return to school," Draco said with as much contempt as he could muster.

"Yes Draco that is the deal, try not to embarrass yourself any further than you have. Your actions also reflect back on me now you know," Harry stated having to at least acknowledge Draco to prove that he was his master.

"I have never embarrassed myself like you have forced me too when you cheated at our duel," Draco countered.

"No Draco you cheated," Harry corrected, "And it is because you cheated that I can force you to leave my sight and SKIP along the train a few times before returning to your seat.

Of course because Harry had worded it like a command and had even put emphasis on the command Draco had no choice but to follow his orders. So as he skipped out of the room, the students aboard the train were treated to the site of the scion of House Malfoy skipping down the corridor, while screaming about how Potter would get his someday.

Back with Harry, Hermione, and there two guests, the cabin was filled with laughter at the sight of Draco's face when he realized that he would be skipping along the train. Sadly by the time everyone's laughter was under control the blond boy made his first pass by their door and the laughing resumed with gusto.

After Draco's second pass everyone had calmed down to the point that they could breathe normally, and Fred and George, who had both fallen onto a bench from laughing, decide that they should stay around and began to talk with the two first years. Unwittingly putting an end to their conversation regarding Harry's powers, but they would have the train ride back to discuss anything Hermione thought of after she had digested what she had already learned.

So leaning back Harry opened one of the butterbeers the twins had brought and relaxed for the rest of the ride to the station. Or at least he relaxed until he realized he had to meet Hermione's parents.

-end chapter-

Happy St. Hermione day.

Sorry the chapters short, but if I didn't cut it there it would have been another several pages of nothing but dialog and would have been a cluttered mess. Plus this way I have something to write about for the return trip other than. And they road back to the school. Draco stopped by and got embarrassed again. Yeah for having something interesting to write about.

Now I should touch on the fact that I haven't updated in a year because I've been working on another story, but I am not giving up on this one either. This is my main story so despite slow updates it will be finished some day.

Until next time thank you for reading, please review, good night and good luck.