A/N - More of a comic relief/softer chapter that should amuse a lot of people, Harry gets a thing that every teen dreads about…. This part of a story, that is Xavier's have maybe ten more chapters and after that we jump to Hogwarts and its problems. Read and review!
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A sword made a beautiful arc in the air and slammed into a shield raised by Ulf in just the nick of time. Harry was a bit surprised when his friend managed to do it, he hadn't expected this blow to have been stopped. Ulf pushed away the blade and sent his axe flying towards Harry's head.
Harry smiled and parried the axe with his sword, he was about to start an attack when he heard Sif. "That's enough for now, someone wants to talk with you both."
They looked at Sif and saw her walking towards them with Eir.
"It's time for it, isn't it?" Hrolf said from the side.
Harry looked at his older friend and had a feeling that he knew the purpose of Eir being there.
"Yes." Eir said and looked at Harry and Ulf. "You two will follow me, I need to speak with you about something."
They nodded, and leaving their gear behind, they followed her through the corridors of the Citadel, as they walked Harry had a weird feeling that it was not going to end too good for him. He glanced at Ulf and saw that his friend was as suspicious as he was. "Where are we going?" He finally asked.
"You will see," Eir said.
They passed through a few more corridors before she finally entered a small room located on top of one of hundreds spires rising from the Citadel. She looked around content and nodded. "This will do for the talk we need to have." She snapped her fingers and conjured three comfortable looking chairs. "It might take us some time, so you better get comfortable."
Harry looked at Ulf, who just shrugged and sat down. Harry looked at Eir who just looked at him, the mask on her face as impossible to read as usual. Knowing well that she wouldn't wait for him he sat down, just to satisfy her.
"What thing that I want to talk about with you is simple," she said and briefly smiled, as if trying to put them at ease. "Puberty and the physical maturity of your body. You are growing up and your body is changing."
"What do you mean?" Harry asked as he felt his cheeks getting warm.
"You start to get attracted towards the other sex or maybe people of your own sex," she said and ignored their attempts to protest. "Also you body develops the last, still, immature organs and glands. Glands responsible for several things." She looked at them and snapped her fingers. "This should help you see what I mean."
In the air in front of them diagrams appeared showing perfectly the body of an Æsir before puberty and after, easily showing the plenitude of the changes that happened during this period.
"I will start from the least unpleasant for you to the most unpleasant," she said and at the same time areas along the spine and close to the brain glowed on the diagram. "Generally until the beginning of puberty we are similar to humans in how the internal structure of our bodies looks, during this period changes appear in our bodies that make us different than them. The highlighted areas are responsible for our longevity, immunity to poison and, if need be, our ability to regrow limbs from scratch."
"So we get almost invincible?" Ulf asked.
"You still can get killed, it's just a much harder task to achieve than it is to kill you now," she said and snapped her fingers making another part of the diagram glow, this time around the brain. "Our brain, normally, is more developed than the brain of a human, but this is the time period it stops developing and reaches its peak performance. While you won't get smarter, your reaction time will drop even more and there are a few other things that you will discover on your own."
They nodded and Harry had a feeling that while this part of the talk was somewhat normal, the next one would make him really, really embarrassed and probably blush so badly that his cheeks would turn colour to a nice shade of beet red.
"Probably, the most important change to your physique during this time is here," she said as the crotch on both diagrams glowed. "Your reproductive organs and hormones connected with them."
Harry felt a blush creep up his cheeks as he looked at Eir and tried to laugh to hide how he felt. It failed miserably and the only thing that left his mouth was short chortle.
"What?" She asked, her keen eyes focusing on them. "Did I say something funny?"
"No," Harry said, shifting uncomfortably and trying not to look into her eyes.
"So I don't see a reason for your behavior," she said. "It's part of our development and you can't do anything about it, it just needs to happen."
Harry looked at the ceiling and sighed. "Why does Fate hate me so much? What did I do?"
"You did nothing." Eir smiler. "It's just the flow of time that happens and nothing will stop it."
"Time could wait," he muttered.
"Can you let her explain?" Ulf asked.
Harry looked at his friend and nodded. "I guess that you are right, she will do it whether we interrupt her or not."
"Indeed," she said and looked at them. "As I was saying, your body is maturing and one of the changes that happen during this time is the development of your reproductive organs as they prepare for fulfilling the task for which they were designed."
Harry looked at her and pinched himself, just to see if she was joking. He could feel his cheeks turn to an even darker shade of red.
She looked at him with some amusement in her eyes and completely ignored his antics. "I know that it is something that you don't really enjoy, but would you really prefer to get it from your fathers? I'm especially talking about His Highness as his father has a talent for having issues explaining even the simplest of things."
Harry blushed as he imagined his father trying to explain these, he felt queasy, as if he was about to throw up at any moment. He swallowed, pushed the thoughts of his father away from his mind and looked at Eir. "I don't like it, I don't want to be here, but I have a feeling you are the lesser evil out of the two."
"Good choice," she smiled and looked at them. "At least once I'm done with you, you will have the opportunity to avoid getting it once again from your parents as I will mention that I told you about these things."
"Thank you," Ulf said. "So can we get it over with? I have a feeling that His Highness might soon self-ignite and it would be interesting for us to watch, but bad for him."
"As if you are better," Harry said and looked at Ulf, he could tell that his friend was just as embarrassed as he was, but was hiding it much better.
Ulf tried to glare, but stopped when Eir looked at them. "Behave the way you are supposed to."
They nodded, sheepishly scratching backs of their heads. "Good," she said. "Can i get you to listen, or do I need to get much, much more painful."
"Yeah, you can" Harry nodded.
"As I was going to say before you interrupted me, puberty, besides starting the last changes that differentiate from humans, is mostly focused on the development of your sex organs and traits that set apart both genders. For males it is mostly the increase in muscle mass, growth, changes in your body shape like wider arms, narrower hips and the growth of hair all over your body."
Harry sighed and Eir looked at him, but completely ignored it.
"Also, your sexual organs will take their final shape and will be able to produce seed which can impregnate a woman during intercourse."
Harry nodded and focused on what she was saying, it seemed as if they were going to be so, so embarrassed by this talk.
Almost an hour later Harry looked at Ulf and could tell that his friend was as embarrassed as he was, though it was less visible with his brown hair and darker complexion. Harry darted a look towards the doors leading into the room and was about to walk towards them when Eir cleared her throat.
"One last thing," Eir said and they looked at her. "You are children of nobility and certain things are expected from you, you will either control yourself and don't have sex until your marriage, which is impossible to achieve, or you will take drugs that make you infertile as long as you take them and don't embarrass your family by having a bastard child."
"Do we need to?" Harry asked.
"If you want to see your father enter his homicidal rage, you might as well not take them," Ulf said and winced painfully. "My older brother brought with himself a bastard once and my father's fury was loud and seeing it from a safe distance was more than enough for me. I know that I won't stay away from the world's pleasures."
"Good words," Eir said approvingly. "Your Highness, I will ask one of the servants to get you a jar with this drug and Ulf I think that you know from where you can get it."
"Yes, my older brother has such a mess in his room that I can take it from him and he won't see it disappear," Ulf said with a shrug. "Or since you will give him, you can give it to me, too."
"I will get someone to send it to you," she said and smiled. "Now scram and get back to what you were doing."
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Harry sighed as he looked at Atalanta who stood in front of him and Ulf, not allowing them to pass. "Where were you?" she finally asked.
Harry shuffled uncomfortably and looked at Ulf, a pleading look in his eyes.
"We might have had a talk with Eir," Ulf said. "Now let us pass."
"I can tell when you are lying and you did now," Atalanta said and looked at them, her golden eyes hardening. "I can pick apart your minds or you will tell this on your own."
"Talked with Eir about certain things," Harry finally sputtered.
"What things?"
Harry felt redness creep up his cheeks. "Puberty," he finally said and grabbing Ulf pushed past her. He completely ignored the look she was giving them or the questions that followed, he wanted to be gone out of her sight as soon as possible.
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Strange sighed as he looked at the wall in front of him, he knew that there was something behind it, however getting inside was far more difficult than it seemed. The wall looked as if it was laughing at them and their attempts to get inside. He knew that Hogwarts was full of surprises and secret rooms, some of them not even known to the Headmaster, but this was something more.
He could feel that it was not a normal room, at least not in the usual meaning of the word, it seemed as if there were several rooms behind this wall, each one of them out of this world. He understood the concept and has used it at the Sanctum Sanctorum, but there he had a visible entrance. These were different, different in a way he couldn't understand.
"Pocket dimension?" Wanda suggested, pacing along the wall. He looked at her. "I mean that we can't access it the normal way, so there must be something more to it."
"More along the lines of a couple of dimensions." He pointed his hand towards the wall and a beam of light flew towards it. "Hard to access, but there is a hidden doorway in this wall, the only question is where."
She nodded and started to pace angrily along the wall, then it happened. In the previously blank wall a door frame with double doors appeared.
"This is... unexpected," he said as he walked forward and opened doors.
Behind them a massive chamber stretched, filled to brim with various things, starting from small boxes and books to whole drawers and wardrobes. Piles of things reached the ceiling and some looked as if they hadn't been used for a century, if not more.
"This is..."
"Huge," she finished and joined him in the room. "Cleaning the room and finding the horcrux will take us a lot of time."
"Yeah...," he said and looked around. "It will take time, we don't even know how it is supposed to look and where exactly it is. We just know it is a diadem."
"And this is one of the biggest haystacks in existence," she said dryly and made him chuckle lightly.
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Hrimhari had a bad feeling about the whole thing as he followed Selwyn and Rowle through Diagon Alley, he casted, around himself, spells powerful enough to keep anybody from seeing him, but he felt that something was awry. He glanced at the roof of the shop to the right and spotted a few of his Rangers crouched there and ready to help him if need be.
Even if they looked the way they were supposed to look he had a feeling about them, Selwyn was tall and had the grace of a trained swordsman, as well as messy long hair that made him look like the worst criminal, while Rowle was short, stocky and as bland as possible.
Pulling out an elongated, wicked knife from a scabbard on his back Hrimhari quickened his pace, trying to join up with his targets. The moment they were in his reach he grabbed Rowle by the head and slit the throat open.
People started to scream as hot blood flowed out of the wound and covered the blade. Rowle let out a chortled sound and slumped in Hrimhari's grip. He released Rowle's body and slammed his knife into Selwyn's chest, only to be stopped by a sword.
"We knew you were hunting," Selwyn said, a grim fire visible in his eyes. "We just didn't know you would be so kind as to attack us with a couple dozens of aurors all around us."
"So?" Hrimhari asked, showing his fangs. "I also have support."
When he said those words the Rangers that were hiding jumped down onto the ground and joined him. They looked around, their faces impossible to read, hidden by their helmets.
"I have more," Selwyn said, trying to push Hrimhari back.
Hrimhari only smiled, easily stopped Selwyn's attack and with his own strike to the heart, ended the duel. His blade passed Selwyn's guard and slammed into his chest, piercing the heart and killing him instantly.
He looked around and saw dozens of wands pointed at him and his Rangers, he growled, fully showing his wolf-like canines and most of the wizards backed off. "They were criminals in the eyes of Asgard, we do not wish you harm, but they needed to die."
The wizards looked at each other and at the bodies on the ground, small pools of blood forming around them. Hrimhari could tell that they were considering what to do, to attack or let him safely get away.
"Will we have a guarantee that you won't kill us?" One of them asked.
"If you aren't a Death Eater or were one, you will live," Hrimhari said and looked at the sky. "Heimdall! Open the Bifrost!"
As the beam of ethereal, rainbow light descended from the heavens above and enveloped them, Hrimhari could see looks of shock and awe among the wizards.
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Fury picked up a newspaper and smiled when his eye scanned the circled article, he didn't expect such a gift from Wisdom.
Ministry at odds with Asgard?! Is Asgard showing interest in the events happening on Midgard?
By Rita Skeeter
The Ministry seems to be at odds with Asgard, as according to my sources in our community, Asgard and its representatives were making contact with various groups for the past thirteen years and they grew in intensity during the last five. However nobody from Asgard contacted the Ministry of Magic, whilst they still keep a good relation with Headmaster Dumbledore and even the Sorcerer Supreme.
Those things were highly worrying by themselves. We all remember the tales and stories about the Realm of Gods and the impact it had on us and our society. However recently things worsened for the Ministry as there are suspicious murders happening, which in my opinion are connected with the Ministry's policy. Why do I think so?
So far only former Death Eaters were targeted by those attacks and killed, while everybody else was left alive. A strong suggestion of this is also a sign left on the victim's corpses, a burned out spiral called a triskelion, the sign of Asgard and Odin. Odin, is the King of Asgard and thus in my opinion that it is a good enough piece of evidence to suggest that it is Asgard who is behind these murders.
I hope that our esteemed government will do something about this situation before an all out war is declared by Asgard, as I'm sure that it will make You-Know-Who look like a child having a tantrum.
"I dislike her language, but she is right," Fury said and shook his head. "They don't know what will happen to the Ministry and they don't know how terrible the rage of Thor can get."
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Lucius Malfoy sat in his office and considered his options, the past few months were full of failures, but he also learned a few things, especially about the abilities of his potential allies and who was worthy enough to be considered one. Not to mention, that he discovered how much influence, power and wealth his enemies had, they had amounts that were highly troubling and dangerous to his plans.
He poured himself a goblet of wine, slowly sipped it and looked at the list of names, former Death Eaters that were killed, the amount of gold in their vaults was also listed, the single most important thing to him. He needed this money to keep fighting SHIELD and its allies, but now he needed to gather resources and assets.
He opened a book placed on the table to his right and looked at the artifact shown on the sole drawing placed there. It was a drawing of a book, the single most terrifying book in the universe and it's name was Darkhold.
"Darkhold, you may be my key to the position of power," he said softly and felt a cold wind pass through the room. It sent away most of the warmth that quickly returned. But the feeling of cold and power lingered deep in his bones.
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Charlie looked at the wizards and wondered how to drop the bomb that Harry was here. He knew what his friend wanted to achieve and he agreed wholeheartedly with it, but starting was a completely different matter. "You know that Harry Potter is half-Æsir," he said as he looked up from the text he was reading.
The wizards' reaction was... interesting. Everybody started to shout and talk with each other so loud that his ears wanted to just turn off. It was a cacophony of noises without any logic or pattern to it and they sounded like the roaring of some large animal.
"Not the worst way to cause chaos," Tonks said as she joined him. "Though the amount of noise they make is huge and annoying."
"It's not like we reacted differently." Charlie said and shrugged. "They will get over it and it is a nice prank."
"I never thought that you liked such things."
"I don't really like breaking rules too badly, but this is fine with me," he said and looked at the room. "It won't get quiet any time soon, it will probably get even louder."
"And to think that we are supposed to represent the best of Hogwarts and wizards in general," she said and stood up. "We won't think clearly here so we might as well go somewhere else."
"I like your idea," he said and followed her out, letting the wizards show how immature they were.
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Harry yawned loudly as he woke up, blinked a couple of times to get the sleep out of his eyes and looked around the room that was only a small part of his chambers at the Citadel. He could see Freki and Geri sleeping soundly on a large rug by the fireplace, which meant that it was still too early as they usually were fully awake long before he was.
He threw away the furs that covered him, got out of bed and made his way to a small table placed by the window. On the table he saw a letter written in the Latin alphabet and a note in runes scribbled on top of it.
He grabbed an apple from a bowl that was placed on the table and looked at the letter.
Your Highness,
I was asked to pass this message to you by some wizards from Hogwarts, those you mentioned that you know.
Bragi, Lord Commandant of the Academy of Battle Magic and Sorcery, God of Poetry, God of Magic
Harry rolled his eyes at the amount of titles, it looked funny considering the fact that the message was almost shorter than the list of titles was. He ignored it and focused on the letter below.
Harry,
We started to spread the news about the fact that you are here and, as we told you, the reaction was loud, obnoxious and enthusiastic. If you want to tell them the truth I would wait a couple of days and let people cool down, they are not the most reasonable group.
Charlie
He smiled at the second part of the letter and made a note in his mind to show up at the Academy in a couple of days or weeks. He placed it on a drawer and walked to the bathroom, stripped and slipped into the warm bath that was already waiting for him. He needed to calm his mind and try to forget about the talk he had gotten from Eir.
It was embarrassing, scary, annoying and a few other things, he understood that he would need to know, but he didn't like learning about them. More embarrassing was getting caught by Atalanta after. As he laid in the warm water he could feel his muscles relax and his worries escape of his mind. Laying in the water a thin smile appeared on his lips. "There are some advantages in being a Prince," he said as his body floated in the warm water. "There are definitely some advantages."
He sighed contently, laying in the water and doing nothing, but he also knew that he couldn't laze around for too long as Sif might storm in, drag him out of the bath and tell him to get dressed as training wouldn't get done on its own.
He quickly washed himself, climbed out of the bath and prepared for the day to come. He knew that he couldn't avoid it, but he wanted to stay out of sight after that talk, especially out of the sight of the fairer sex.
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Umbridge was pale as she looked at the Minister, she had never expected things to be that bad, those fakes claiming to be of Asgard had the gall to murder two of the finest citizens in the middle of Diagon Alley and they weren't stopped or killed.
"I don't know how it happened." she said, swallowing her pride. "They entered unseen and nobody did anything about it."
"How? How did it happen?" Fudge asked
"I don't know how nobody was able to stop them, but I already ordered aurors to be deployed to the Alley and patrol."
"And what about Hogwarts?"
"We were unable to gain access to it, as if it was sealed by something or someone."
"Our aurors?"
"Were found in the middle of Hogsmeade, not remembering a thing and without any clothes on themselves."
Fudge nodded and she could see him get paler and paler by the second.
"I suggest that we tell everybody that Asgard wants a war with us and that nothing will stop it, so we need to be prepared," she said. "People are scared and since Dumbledore seems unwilling to do something, we need to."
"Indeed, indeed. What would you suggest?"
"That we prepare for war and start planning how to deal with MI-13 that might be the biggest problem short of Asgard. Also the one that we can take down more easily than anything else."
"Is it wise?"
She wanted to growl at him, but she controlled herself and only smiled. "We need to show our sovereignty to the other forces and the fact that we won't be pushed around, and this is the easiest way to do so."
"Of course, those are perfect suggestions."
"Thank you, Minister for your understanding of how important the security of our society is," she bowed her head and looked at Fudge. "If you allow me I will start drafting the plans to make these things work."
"Permission granted."
She beamed and walked out of the office, completely ignoring how rich the decor was. For her nothing, excluding power, mattered and she was going to get it and hold onto it.
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Harry looked at the wizards and tried not to shake his head. "I never thought that you can love something so much, someone that you haven't even seen with your own eyes," he said looking at Charlie.
"Unfortunately that's how most wizards behave, you will have loads of fun at Hogwarts," he said and looked at Harry. "How do you keep them from not seeing your scar? I can see it just fine."
"A bit of magic." Harry smiled. "You know how I truly look, while they don't, so I covered myself in a veil that blocks them from seeing me."
"So who are you for them?"
"Another student of Hogwarts, as plain and boring as possible," Harry said and looked at the crowd of wizards that seemed to not shut up about him. "Will they stop chatting about me?"
"Probably no," Charlie said and shrugged. "They aren't the most reasonable people, I like being a wizard, but sometimes I feel as if it is a tainted group that lacks anything of use."
"So should I reveal myself?"
"If you wish to get trampled by them, why not," Charlie chuckled, making Harry look at him. "Yes, it will be that bad."
"Just wonderful." Harry rolled his eyes. "But I need to confront it sooner or later, so here it goes." He snapped his fingers and the veil he had weaved disappeared.
For a moment nothing happened, then one wizard looked in Harry's direction and it happened. The wizard's eyes widened when they landed on Harry's scar and then he pointed his finger towards Harry. "The Boy-Who-Lived is here!" he shouted and Harry felt that he was doomed.
"Good luck, but don't count on too much of my help," Charlie said.
"Thank you," Harry said with a roll of his eyes. "I will remember to throw you into a dungeon."
He saw Charlie gulp in fear, but he was aware that first he needed to survive the wizards coming towards him. He let them show their excitement for a moment before he summoned thunder with a snap of his fingers. They looked between each other and then at his hard face. "How hard is it to understand that I did nothing on that night? Voldemort's spell bounced off me because of a ritual done by my mother, so end of topic."
"That's blasphemy!"
"Actually that's the truth and only the truth." Flitwick said as he walked into the room and looked at Harry, almost instantly the Hogwarts students calmed down. "There are some rituals that can be invoked only by the mother of a child in dire need and it was one of those situations. It is really complicated and dangerous magic, as well as passed on within families so few know about it."
"Thank you," Harry nodded towards Flitwick, he had heard enough about him to be careful around him.
"I must congratulate you on an excellent illusion casted on yourself," Flitwick chuckled lightly. "If it was at Hogwarts I would award you points for it, as it is almost impossible to detect and hard to break."
"Thank you, will you explain the rest to them?"
"Indeed, Your Highness," Flitwick said. "You can leave and I will ensure that they understand the whole situation."
Harry nodded and walked out of the room, he stopped at the doors and looked at the wizards. "If you want to earn my friendship when I will be at Hogwarts work hard and think more, not only about yourself." he said those words and walked out, leaving them to sort things out.
He would have stayed longer, but he wanted some rest and peace far away from the noise. He could feel his heart beat a lot faster than it used to and it calmed only when he was inside of his chambers deep within the Citadel. Thick walls and hundreds of guards between him and the Hogwarts group. He looked out of the window and saw that it was getting dark outside, it also made him realize how mentally and physically exhausted he was. He yawned loudly and looked at his bed that seemed to call to him.
He quickly undressed and climbed into the bed, the moment he dragged one of the furs over himself he fell asleep, but it was not a peaceful sleep. Far from it. His mind seemed to think that he should repeat every lesson he received at the Institute and for most of the night nightmares showed up.
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Atalanta focused on the piece of rock laying in front of her, wrapped it in her thoughts and willed it to rise. She felt gravity fight her, but after a moment it moved up from the ground and started to ascend into the air.
"Keep your focus on it," Jean Grey said, her green eyes watching Atalanta. "You lose it and your control will slip."
"I know," she said, her gaze focused on the stone that she managed to push to her eye level and was slowly making its way higher and higher. It finally stopped above her head. "It's the same thing with spells, you get distracted and it stops."
She felt her control waive and was forced to jump down as the rock slipped out of her control and plummeted down, almost hitting her.
"Good job with the attempt to kill yourself," Jean said with a chuckle. "But I think that you know what you are doing wrong, don't you, Your Highness?"
"Yes," Atalanta said and once again focused on the piece of rock. "It will take me a lot of time, won't it."
"Yes," Jean smiled, making Atalanta groan. "I thought that you liked learning new things."
"I like, it's just that psychic powers are weird and even less logical than magic." Atalanta focused on the piece of rock and saw it fly into the air.
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Kitty looked at the city spread all around the Citadel and the Academy floating above the ground in the distance, the sun was slowly hiding below the horizon as everybody prepared for the night. Golden street lights and braziers started to light up one by one, sending hundreds of reflections in every direction. She glanced at Harry who stood to her side watched the Academy. "Does Asgard always look so good?"
"Unless my dad gets angry, it does," he said. "We are in something that on Earth can be described as Mediterranean climate, plenty of sun, not much rain and nice temperature."
"I kind of miss Earth and the Institute, even if here it looks like a paradise."
"It feels too good to be true?" He asked and she looked at him. "I had this feeling when I got here."
"You did?"
"Who wouldn't if he was living in a boring neighborhood, here you have everything that you can dream of and even more."
"Point taken," she said and looked towards the training grounds where Danielle was training with Sif. "I didn't expect to see that."
"That she is willing to train a human in the arts of war?"
"Yes."
Harry chuckled lightly, making her arch an eyebrow and look at him. "You don't get trust from a group if you don't help them and she is used to training a lot of weird people, so she doesn't have a single issue with a human."
"I see," Kitty said and looked towards the horizon.
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Bjarni smiled as he watched the wizards train much harder than they used to, it seemed that sending a few of them to the Healers did wonders on them and now they were actually working with some eagerness, eagerness he hadn't seen in them when they had first arrived. Now they were actually not treating it as something they had to do, but as something where they could learn.
"They seem to be more focused," Bragi said, appearing at his side. "I spoke with the other people that help train them and they are getting better. I wonder what did it."
Bjarni smiled and moved out of the body that was hurled through the air. "I think that His Highness might have something to do with it, remember that he is supposed to be attending their school of magic and he might have said few words to them, about that and him."
"I think he did," Bragi said and Bjarni looked at him. "They are more focused on actually pulling their heads out of their backsides, which I didn't expect to happen, yet it did."
"Small wonders can happen, or maybe the Norns did it."
"They only know." Bragi said as they resumed their walk, stopping from time to time to explain things and correct moves.
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Xavier's Institute after the attack was heavily damaged, with its outer walls destroyed in some places and then heavily damaged in others, which made it unsuitable as a place to live in. However the damage done to its outer shell was far less dangerous than the one caused to its internal structure. Many of its parts suffered heavy damage during the fighting, mainly thanks to the mutants unleashing their powers in an attempt to defeat the attack force. Even more damage was done when search and rescue teams were digging out people from collapsed corridors and rooms as their priority was not preserving the structure, but getting people out of the rubble. People's life was, is and will be always more important than a structure that can be reconstructed.
However the Institute was not going to stay destroyed as Fury knew how important for him were happy mutants willing to work and as such the repairs were progressing almost at the same time as the investigation was. By late February it was rebuilt and ready to once again be inhabited. It also meant that the X-Men and the mutants' stay on Asgard was coming to an end.
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Small explanation of new things/terms:
Darkhold - opposite of the Book of the Vishanti that Strange has, while Vishanti holds white magic spells, Darkhold holds the worst of the worst and is something more, but that is for you to find.
One small rant, this approach to contraception on Asgard is the most practical one you can get as it solves all problems and everybody is happy. Also it solves one of the biggest nightmares of almost every noble - bastards, children that usually were more of a problem than anything else. It depended on a realm and culture, but it usually was treated as a shame to have one.
Reviews:
Otsutsuki no Yami - Simple show of power sometimes is the best and the cheapest solution you have, also it works on almost everybody while stroking your ego. It is both for internal observes and external ones, but here it was aimed at Dumbledore.
Harry in terms of power, he is somewhere in the lower level of Alpha class, he has plenty of power, but he doesn't know how to use more than twenty or so percents of it and how to do it so that the effect is the biggest. He has potential to be boxing in the same league as Thor or Hulk, but now he lacks control, puberty needs to fully hit him and he needs to get experience.
voice of the riders - wizards need to get broken, or at least their pride as in some cases it is so huge that it could suffocate everybody around you, just saying.
