Here's the next chapter!
And Nate and I agreed on a little something. We would post once a week, but sometimes my rivers of inspiration don't always flow the way I want them to. For example, this chapter's title didn't come up until Friday almost a week after the double chapter extravaganza we gave you last week.
So we will post once a week, but it might not always be top notch as sometimes we plan and wait for too long and sometimes we just wing it. Now, the chapter title was created on Friday and I have no idea when the chapter itself will come to be, but it has, at least, been finished before/on Sunday.
So there,

Venquine1990
Co-Author: Nate the Werehog

Chapter 26
Royal Discoveries

Luxord's POV

As agreed with Laslew two fortnights ago am I standing on Gringotts land for my second visit in a month. The first visit, two weeks after Harry's birthday party, had been to inform me of a marriage contract between Susan Bones and our son that James Potter had taken into consideration before his death.
I had met with Madam Bones and with Susan and we had come to the agreement that we would let Harry and Susan meet over the school year and that, at the end of their first month there, they could decide whether or not to change the Marriage contract into a blood –sibling contract – to avoid public face-loss.

Feeling as if I will be doing the same for the next few weeks, I enter the same office as before and greet Laslew with a bow before asking: "My fair companion, would you accept if I offer to go over the marriage and other contracts every other meeting and to use the rest of our oncoming meetings for other business?"
The Goblin nods and says: "I wished to offer you the same thing, my good friend. Especially because we did a re-check on Lord Potter's mother line and found something extraordinary." This instantly worries me and the Goblin says: "Nothing worrisome, I would have contacted you sooner had that been the case."
I nod relieved and ask: "What have you found?" And the Goblin answers: "There was a curse on Lady Potter's line that her bond with Lord Potter – with help of the Ancient Potter Curse – was able to break – it appears, according to our results to be the sole reason our new Lord is born male instead of female."

This shocks me and I ask: "Harry could have been a girl?" The Goblin nods and says: "Yes, was it not for the Potter Curse strengthening the bond between Lord and Lady Potter, their magic combined as soul magic when they conceived would not have been strong enough to break Lady Potter's curse."
I nod and ask: "And what exactly makes this curse so special, if it is apparently already broken?" The Goblin sighs and says: "What you must understand, my friend, is that there are only three lines in the entire Magical world that society believes could have been affected by this curse.
The Chang's, the Bones' and the Evans line, which ends with Lily and Harry Potter. Now that we know who of the three has the actual curse – I hate to say this – but Magical England has a new king." I shake my head, completely confused now and ask: "What does this curse has to do with England getting a new king?"

And Laslew answers: "The Curse was placed upon a royal ancient line by Morgana Le Fay herself. It was done because of a son, illegitimately conceived by this ancient line and thus a son who had no rights to the crown. Morgana wished for him to have the crown, so she cursed the royal line.
When I say Royal line, I mean the Royal line of Arthur Pendragon, the famous Mystical King of Magical England, and the illegitimate son is King Mordred, the Tiran king that took the crown by force after his father's death and who almost caused all races in our nation to be separated by war."

I can barely believe what I am hearing and I say: "So Arthur first birthed an illegitimate son and then, after being cursed by Morgana Le Fay, birthed a daughter, who could not take the crown, thus upon his death, Mordred was still able to take the crown and became known as a war-causing king?"
Laslew nods and says: "That curse, to only bare a female heir, has been important to several families for generations as most of those wait for the curse to be broken so that England can have a king once more. And James Potter was the one to break the Curse, causing Lily Potter to give birth to our new king."

I sack down, barely able to believe that my little man is to be king and then Laslew sighs and says: "Shortly after finding out about Lady Potter's magical heritage, we found this marriage contract between the House of Pendragon and the House of Lancelot, which is nowadays known as the House of Greengrass."
I moan and mutter: "Not another marriage contract." But Laslew tops me and says: "It seems that, when Lancelot betrayed Arthur by mating with Queen Guinevere he was under the influence of a spell cast by Morgana Le Fay. He never meant for the treason to happen, he was too loyal to Arthur for that.
So Arthur banished him from English grounds and ordered him to serve the crown in, what is nowadays known as the Netherlands, and in return Lancelot swore that his firstborn female heir would marry the firstborn male heir of Arthur. It is suffice to say that neither of them knew of Morgana's female curse."

I nod and say: "Laslew my friend, my son is all but ready to be king. He is barely able to be the role model Boy Who Lived, let alone king. Please tell me what a King must do and I will teach Harry over summer. When he reaches majority, he will take the crown, I promise you that, my friend."
The Goblin nods and walks to the back of his office where he pulls a drawer from the wall and pulls out a small, flat square-shaped box with a golden clasp at the front. He walks over to me and says: "This is the Crown Arthur wanted to give his firstborn male heir. It won't make him king, but it will let people know."
I nod and take the box. I then say: "Please ask for Lord Greengrass to meet me posthaste. I think I will need a new meeting as it seems that this man did not take that Potter Curse you mentioned into account when he made the marriage contract between his own daughter and my son, wouldn't you agree?"

The Goblin laughs and ten minutes later a man with broad shoulders and sturdy looking arms – quite well resembling Lexaeus – walks in with short black hair that is streaked with strands of blond and who has strong dark blue eyes with a steely glint – which reminds me of Demyx when he gets serious.
The man bows to me and says: "It is an honor to meet one of the parents of my new king." And I bow back as I say: "Future king, my son will take the crown Arthur intended for him, but I won't allow him the throne until he turns off age. He is just not ready yet and I know he won't be ready for a while either."

The man nods and says: "I am Cidel Greengrass of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Greengrass, Heir to Sir Lancelot of the Round Table." I nod and say: "I am Luxord, father of Harry James Potter and # X in the Organization and also known to my fellow parents and partners as Gambler of Fate."
The man seems satisfied and asks: "No Ancient House?" And I answer: "I come from a world where Ancient Houses aren't well-understood, let alone used." The man accepts this answer with a nod and mutters: "Always knew it was right to believe there was life outside our little pitiful planet."
Making me laugh shortly and say: "You will do well to meet Harry's mother, Larxene. You both seem to have that dark sharp tongue that she is so well-known for, yet Larxene has learned to only use it when she believes her child in danger – a time where even I would not dare to step in her way."

And I cringe as I remember the one time Harry spend a little too much time in the jungle playing with Silen and Larxene almost caused a thunderstorm to fry all of the flora and fauna there in her effort to find her son. It had almost backfired on all our effort to get Harry out of his shell, but luckily enough it didn't.
I shake my head and whisper: "Never again let her near that forest." Making Cidel tilt his head, but I shake mine and say: "Lord Cidel, I asked for your presence because I recently discovered something about Harry you seem to have known his whole life, namely his royal status and his bond with your line."
Cidel nods and I sigh: "Unfortunately, as wonderful as I am sure your daughter has turned out, have you forgotten who Harry's father is and if I am to go by what Laslew has told me of that curse, is it unstoppable, even by a marriage contract between a royal line and the line of Noble Knight."

The man looks shocked and then hits himself on the head, groaning and muttering: "Ten years of preparations and I forget 1 of the most important things about that boy's family. Daphne's going to hate me." Which in turn makes me wonder if Daphne also has the same dark sharp tongue as Larxene and her father.
Deciding to get back to business, I scrape my throat and say: "Perhaps we can bond Harry to your daughter after all." The man looks up and says: "This Potter Curse will surely pick someone absolutely perfect for Harry, if the tales of Lily and James and their bond are anything to go by."
"But?" Cidel asks and I say: "But where there's a father line, there is a mother line and Harry can easily let Daphne take on the Ladyship of one of his lines from mother's side, maybe even the Pendragon line, if the Potter curse doesn't find anyone better for that." The man looks shocked and I say:
"Lancelot and Arthur are a thousand years ago. If Harry has heritage going that far back, surely he has other ancient lines going down his family tree. And maybe he can then marry Daphne in name of one of those other lines. They marry and your family pays their dept to my family. Case closed, problem solved."

The man looks shocked and whispers: "That's brilliant." And I say: "Just make sure you bring Daphne over for a few meetings during the winter holidays. My family and I will be visiting other worlds during the summer holidays, so I can't exactly say when we will have time to be home during those holidays."
Cidel nods and says: "May I, in turn, invite you to my wife's Winter Solstice party? It's on the 22nd this year, which is perfect as the winter holidays start on the 20th, so your family will have two days to prepare." I nod and we shake hands, both glad with the agreements we have made between our two families.

I then take the box in my hand and use our own transportation portal to get me home in seconds, but while walking through the portal do I try to think and decide who would be best to lead England until Harry is King as that will help our son all the more, if he already has a king for a father.
In the end Zexion, Vexen and Xaldin seem to have their own qualities that make them, one by one, the perfect candidate for the crown and I decide to simply inform them and to then take each of them with me on my next trip, so that Cidel and Laslew can, together, make the final decision regarding this.

I then report my findings and my last decision to Xemnas, as I did last time and say: "I would have chosen you, Xemnas, but you are already leader of our team and Harry's first father, I could not risk it – nor could I risk a reoccurrence of what happened the last time you held such power."
The man nods and says: "I understand. I too thought of this when you first told me of Harry's role in the magical world. I am fit as leader of this family, but not as leader of this world. It would make me turn this world into a second World that Never Was and arry does not deserve such a world for a home."
We both nod and I leave the throne room, but before I do, Xemnas says: "Tell the others we will be distracting Harry from the Halloween feast and it's past by going to pick out dress robes for the Winter Solstice party we are invited to." I nod, proud of the man's decision and leave Where Nothing Gathers.

And there you have it.
This was supposed to be a chapter of Demyx meeting Hades, but the story 'Harry Potter Heir of Pendragon' by Kevin1984 was so BRILLIANT it didn't let me go until I asked him permission to use the whole King Arthur plan. For any information on King Arthur, read his story, it has everything you want to know.
Now, next chapter will take place after KH 1 and KH 2 as Riku was 9 and Harry 7 when KH 1 ended and Riku was stuck in the Realm of Darkness, so add 1 year of Sora sleeping to that and another – I think – 4 months of Sora looking for Riku and Kairi and beating the Organization and you get:
Riku 10 – born 24th of February 1978
Sora 9 – born 20th March 1979
Harry 8 – born 31st July 1980
Yes, there is a reason we have this, you will soon find out. Anyway, this proves that, when Harry is eleven, the Organization has been gone for over a few years and thus peace reigns once again. For those of you who want to know, KH Dream Drop Distance will be during Harry's fourth.
Okay enjoy,

Venquine1990
Co-Author: Nate the Werehog

PS. Sorry that this is a day late, I didn't finish it until 11 at night.