AN: I did some thinking after the last chapter and realized that I did bite off more than I could chew when I first started this story in a few places mainly the use of Azeroth so I may do a side story down the line for his adventures there or I may not and just leave it as a home for the goddess that admins the system.
Disclaimer: I don't own any character or place mentioned in this story other than my original characters
Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry Headmasters office August 15th 2001
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was not having a good day, for that matter he has had four years of bad days piled up around himself.
His plans for the last fifty years has started failing over the last four years and he has no clue as to how it went wrong. When he became Headmaster after Armando Dipit retired he started rearranging the school's curriculum to remove alchemy from the courses and to make divination a joke subject by hirings charlatans to fill the role as professor, he has also encouraged bigotry from the shadows at the same time he would protect the students he found that he manipulate to take a pure bloods view.
After defeating Gellert and becoming Chief Warlock of the wizingamot he would slip a few law's through that either restricted muggle born children or outright stripped them of their magic, sometimes he would visit homes to scout possible targets for his ideals if he did not like the child he would surreptitiously bind their magic.
And when Tom Riddle aka Voldemort began acting he couldn't have been happier. That fool upstart Dark Lord drove more people into positions they wouldn't have taken normally which allowed Albus to slip more law's into place through some of the darker families that forced the muggle borns to practically flee Britain in droves. Then the wizingamot elected him to represent Britain in the I.C.W. where he could keep foreign countries out of the war that was brewing by making it seem as if the fleeing muggle borns were blowing things out of proportion.
One would ask why he was doing so much to force the muggle borns away and the simple answer is power, if he can keep the pure blood families from marrying the muggle born witches and wizards their only option is to marry other pure bloods most of which are so closely related that only one in every three children are born magical due to inbreeding.
His long term plan is for them to breed themselves out and then bring back the muggle born children to fill the gaps left though there are a few pure blood families he intends to keep alive simply because they are easy to manipulate like James and Lily Potter and their children one of whom he plans to make into a puppet that should James become a problem he could take care of the problem then set the boy as the head of house.
Then there was Molly Weasley nee Pruitt and her two youngest children a boy that would have started Hogwarts this year and was simply the laziest simple-minded child Albus had ever seen he would keep the Potter boy stupid and lazy simply by making friends with him then keep others away, then the daughter a year younger would have been of use as another distraction from learning by becoming his girlfriend. But then that potion explosion ruined that part of the plan by killing Molly and three of her children while Arthur and the twins were off somewhere for two months.
And one of the most vexing problem with the plan was that less than a year after he put his pawn in a place that would keep him humble and meek they all just disappear.
Now it is almost time for him and the other Potter children to come to Hogwarts and he has no idea if the one he wants to be a puppet will even show or lose his magic like so many others.
Albus is pulled from his thoughts as someone knocks on his office door. "Come in." he calls out. When the door opens to reveal Minerva McGonagall he smiles inwardly at one of his other pawns. "Ah Minerva, how can I help you?" he ask while using his grandfatherly tone of voice.
Minerva nods to him and sits in the chair across from Albus. "It's nothing I just wanted to let you know that I am about to deliver my last two letters for muggle born children before returning to my vacation, also I received a patronus message from Pamona and Filius that they would be finishing their rounds as well today or tomorrow as well." she says while looking at a list in her hands. "I'm unsure of who they have left but I have a River Song and Hermione Granger."
Albus sits back with his fingers steepled" Granger huh, any relation to the Dagworth- Granger's ?" he ask looking over his half moon glasses.
Minerva shakes her head. " I don't think so they moved here from Australia when Hermione was a little over a year old." she says while watching his eyebrows arch in curiosity.
He nods and looks to her to continue. "They are my dentist, I've never liked the way the magical dentist dose the cleaning of teeth so I found a muggle one to clean my teeth and check up on them from time to time, I noticed little Hermione do some small accidental magic so have kept an eye on her over the last nine or so years, and we have spoken of our families, her parents wish to one day visit some of the Clan McGonagall castles for their historical values." she says while smirking on the inside as they loved seeing her ancestral home.
Albus jump's at the last words she spoke. "You would have muggles in your families home?"he ask almost sneering as he spoke.
Minerva laughs at his expression and shakes her head. "They are a pure blood family that prefer the muggle world over what they call our backwards community, and I agree with them on that to a point, being half blood myself I don't shun the muggle world like most everyone else who prefer to live three hundred years out of date with the rest of the world." she says with some heat in her voice.
He holds up his hands in surrender, this was one thing his spell and potions he wished would get rid of, her defence of the muggle world. "If they are pure bloods them why are you talking the letter to them?" he ask trying to get her onto safer grounds.
"Lunch at one of my favorite restaurants and they have up owl redirecting ward's that send their mail to a box at Gringots so two birds one stone kind of thing, as for miss Song she lives a few blocks from the Granger's so I can get them both at the same time." she said with a smile. In the back of her mind she is laughing at Albus as he does not seem to remember binding their magic as children when their families came to Britain.
Albus nods at her explanation, after a few minutes he leans forward and rest his elbows on the desk. "And the Potter letter was ot sent out?" he ask.
Minerva stiffened at the mention of Potter then narrow her eyes at him which causes him to lean back slightly. "The Potter's have had their children signed up for Hogwarts for a while now and I don't see the point in concerning ourselves with them." she said while trying to keep her hand from moving to the pocket that she kept the letters for Harry and Dudley.
"I meant the oldest Potter boy, he may have regained his magic over the years and I was concerned that if that is true he would lose ot come September if he does not attend." Albus said with a sad look crossing his face.
"Well if you thought that there was a chance for him to regain his magic you should not have pushed to have him sent away." she says standing and storming out of the office.
Albus knew that Harry was a sore spot for Minerva but he needs to get the boy under his control. He looks to his sla... faithful companion who sings a mournful song. " I know Fawkes we are going to be hard pressed if Harry Potter does not come to school." the other Potter boy was a spoiled brat who may be like his father brash and extremely arrogant so he did not know if he could guide him to take the place he set for Harry.
Summer's Rest
It was now one of the week breaks right now and the children were all wondering around one of the many flower gardens or working on one project or another.
Harry and River were walking through a grove of cherry trees that were blooming and filling the air with a lovely sent which helped them relax. " So what's up with the race change that you went through?" River ask while looking at one of the trees.
Harry scratches the back of his head. " It was the third world I went to Alagaesia, you know from the Inheritance cycle books? Well I appeared in the vault where the Eldunari and eggs were being hidden." he says looking to the tree as well.
FLASHBACK
When Harry appeared he found himself in a cave filled with glowing crystal's of many size's from the size of an apple to towering over him, there were also stones from the size of small mellons to as large as beachballs, as he was looking around he felt something pressing against his occlumency barriers.
"Whoever is trying to enter my mind stop now or have your own shredded into nothing." he calls out as he searches for the source of the attack.
As he was distracted a form moved to behind himself and drew a sword, Harry barely had time to draw his own sword in time to block the first strike, blow after blow flew at him some times they came close to hitting the crystals or one of the stones, throwing up a sheild to keep the blade of his attacker from hitting them as he tries to get the upper hand, after what felt like hours and the sword hits his barrier a voice calls out." Halt guardian return to your post." The voice seems to be coming from all around the chamber he was in.
Looking around he could not see any other with him. "Ok so where am I and why was I attacked?" Harry ask.
"You are in the Vault of Souls, here in this place are many dragons eggs." the voice says causing Harry to stiffen up at the words dragon eggs.
"And the crystals you see are the Eldunari, also known as the heart's of dragon's." the voice continues speaking. " This place is a safe haven for the eggs and Eldunari from the mad king Galbatorix, should he find this place the world shall fall into eternal conflict and the evils shall reign."
Once the name Galbatorix was said Harry felt faint. He knew this world and only wanted to find an out of the way place and hope to never be found. The Eldunari seeing his reaction took it to mean he knew of what it spoke. " Fear not you will come to no harm here in the vault but we have no food to sustain you." it said after moment.
" I'm good for food and water, but it is where I am that bothers me, I am a world traveler meaning I travel from world to world and this one is known to me, I'm sure the hero will be able to defeat the mad king but his road is a long and painful one." Harry said as he looks for a place to sit but every spot seems to be taken by an egg or Eldunari.
" The red and green egg third to your left will never hatch it's life was taken just after it's mother lay it we hold it here in memory of what could happen if the king finds us, we can do nothing as we are other than hide the eggs." the Eldunari said as Harry moved to lift the egg.
As Harry's hands touched the egg it began to glow then it disappears in mote's of light that fly into his chest. Harry gasps as the light enter him then he falls to the ground screaming in pain, then he burst into flames that consume his body leaving a pile of ashes, after a few minutes the ashes begin to shift around then a small dragon's head pop's out with a small cry of shock.
The Eldunari are all confused shocked or distressed at the seeming death of such a young one until his head is seen. The little dragon seems to be growing at an accelerated rate until ot reaches the size of a small horse. It is the same color as the egg but it's wing's and tail are feathered in flames.
In front of Harry's eyes is a clear blue window. ' Race change has occurred by absorbing the essence of the dragon's egg and having the form of a fire Phoenix as your travel animagus from they have combined into a perfect blend of the two races. You will now have the abilities of both. Your magical core has been changed to that of a Dragon mana core which increase your magical stat by two hundred percent per level , you may now also create your own Eldunari but be warned if you do so, if the Eldunari is destroyed you may not create a new one for seven years while you will lose half of your magical strength during that period of time guard it well, should you use the burning rebirth of your Phoenix form your ashes will be moved to the Eldunari's location '
As Harry read the window the Eldunari around him were all shaking off their shock when one began to make sounds of crying. Harry panicked and approaches the crying Eldunari and touched it with the tip of his snout. This Eldunari was a lovely shade of aqua blue, as he did so he could almost feel what felt like arm's or wings wrap around his body.
"You gave my only child life." the Eldunari said to Harry. As he was being hugged or what felt like being hugged he felt a small jolt of some kind pass between himself and the Eldunari.
'Ummm Mia what just happened, I mean I get the race change it's happened to other gamers in one way or another, well sort of anyway why a full race change and not just my travel animagus form?' he ask the goddess/system
' I'm not sure really this thing went fritzy for a minute let's see here...ah here it is, the dragon egg was that of a wild dragon so when the system tried to make the essence a secondary travel form it didn't like that so it fought the system, your Phoenix essence from your travel form tried to stop it but instead they kind of combined and then the fritz happened and boom Phoenix Dragon Hybrid...umm looks like you can change to either form in full or a mixture of each." Mia says while Harry could only sigh.
As he is talking to Mia he unconsciously shift's back to his human form and wrap's his arms around the Eldunari as it seems to be growing warm and for some reason it feels like it is getting soft as well.
He give a content sigh as he tries to burrow his head into the softness and warmth until he hears a tinkling laugh from above. Looking up he finds a beautiful face looking back to h with a loving smile, then reality hit him as he flexed his fingers feeling flesh under his hands. " Naked!! " he squeaks out and faints.
Flashback Ends
River is laughing after hearing that he fainted from realizing the woman was naked. Harry was pouting at her as she laughs. " It's not that funny, you try thinking you are hugging a sentient Crystal to comfort it and then it turns into a beautiful woman that is wearing no clothes." he says in a whiny voice.
After a minute more of laughing River retains control of herself. " What did she look like, to cause you to faint she must have been really beautiful?" she ask while she looks back to the tree.
"Um kinda like Scarlett Johansson with elvish features and aqua blue hair and eyes, and let me tell you she can be a ditzy person until in combat. I got a scratch during the fight in Surda and she went a little berserk and wiped out over half the enemy army before I could get her to calm down." Harry shudders thinking over that day.
"And what happened to her when you had to leave that world, I would think it would not have been easy." she ask when she sees him shudder.
" Erena is here name and she is somewhere in Azeroth right now doing whatever she feels like, Last time I talked to her she was working on cutting gem's and crafting jewelry from some of the stuff found there." he answers her while scratching his head again. " She keeps going on about me giving her grandbabies, and wouldn't let me leave her, if you meet her just run." he said while blushing.
"Why should she run from me?" was asked as a pair of strong feminine arms scoop him up and hold him against something soft.
River spun to face the new voice readying a spell, what she saw was indeed someone looking like Scarlett Johansson with elvish features holding Harry against her, she was dressed in an elegant blue dress that had a scale pattern. Harry had a deadpan expression while Erena was swaying softly. " Come on Ma you have been trying to get me hooked up with ever girl you can find in any of the world I have been to after Alagaesia." Harry points out while just letting her hold him.
River let's the spell fade and begins laughing harder than before fall to the ground. Erena gets a gleam in her eyes and tightened her hold on Harry while she looks River over, she then nods and smiles at finding a new target to get her son to mate and hope he would take this one. " What's so wrong with wanting grand children to spoil, and to see your family grow?" she ask while Harry can only shake his head.
"Well now that I am home it may happen but I have a long time before I am ready to go that far, isn't Yua enough for now?" he says while pointing out that he is too young.
"She's a cutie pie and all, I do love her as well but she will always be the age she is now and we don't know if she will ever have children of her own." Erena said while thinking about Yua whom he had picked up from the first place he had been to.
"Yua?" River ask from the ground where she now sat while she was catching her breath.
Harry has a smile growing as he is thinking about Yua and how he had found her just like Kirito and Asuna had found Yui.
" Yua was a artificial intelligence system from the cardinal program that man built to run Aincrad, she and her sister Yui went against the cardinal program and it tried to erase them but Kirito and I saved them into our nerve gears, and they became nav pixies when we went into a new game that someone Asuna's father hired to build up VR games after the Aincrad debacle but he had been using what he built to brainwash players he trapped when Kirito saved everyone in the death game." Harry was growling as he was speaking.
" Yua was pulled into Azeroth and got a physical body but so far as I can tell she will always be twelve years old physically." he finishes with a soft smile.
River nods a bit then she thought of something. "Your part of our masteries project?" she ask him.
" Yeah I originally planned on making it a pice of jewelry either an earring or ring but when Yua became a truly living being I changed it to make others like her but so far all the checks with Arithmancy show all the pixies will be female." he says while squirming in Erena's arm's.
Suddenly Erena drops Harry and hits a fisted han on top of the palm of her other hand. "Mia says to tell you that if you aren't going to be selling the gear the pawns have been making she is going to empty the sell the stuff at the shops in the town all over Azeroth to clean out the bank, something about reaching the limit of what it was built for and the only stuff that stacks are the materials."
Groaning Harry picks himself up as he looks to River then Erena while River looks confused. "Mia?" then it comes to her who Erena is talking about and then facepalms. " I totally forgot about that, we will need to get together with Ragknock sometime soon and set that up." she says while standing up and dusting herself off.
"Huh" was all Harry could get out as Erena bends over and picks him up to hold again. His deadpan grows to epic proportions as River motions for them to follow her to Ragknock's office here on the school grounds for when he decides he needs a vacation from running Gringots London branch, they had walked for a few minutes with people looking at Erena and Harry trying to figure out what they are doing when River stops mid step and then turns to her dorm building, Erena is cheerfully following along oblivious to everyone's starring.
It was another few minutes walking before they reach the dorms, River doesn't stop until they reach an elevator, as she pushes the button to call the elevator she looks at Erena and laughs because it seems Harry has gone into some kind of shit down from embarrassment.
"Uhh why are you holding him like that anyway?" she ask as she steps into the now open elevator, who wishing she had a camera.
"Oh I'm still a dragon you know and where I'm from we carry our hatchlings until they are grown enough to hint on their own, and to my senses Harry is still a hatchling." Erena says rubbing her cheek against the top of his head.
"Every damn world I would de-age and go through this it wasn't so bad when we were in places that didn't know me, but here I know a lot of people and they know me, I think I saw the twins somewhere along the way here." Harry said as he came back from wherever his mind went.
River laughs at his statement which causes Harry to glare in her direction. He crosses him arms and starts grumbling. When the door opens they find Petunia waiting to go to another floor only to frown and growing red from seeing this woman holding her nephew in such an odd way.
She looks from Harry to River then the woman then back to Harry who seems resigned to being held like he was. "Hi auntie Petunia how was your day so far?" Harry ask as he watches her looking at them.
Erena hearing Harry's question looks at Petunia and gives her a broad smile. "Hello I'm Erena it's nice to meet you." she says while holding out one hand while keeping Harry with the other arm.
Petunia shakes the offered hand stiffly and nods. River is fighting the urge to laugh at this situation, as they shake hands, she then steps out of the elevator and head's to her room with Erena holding Harry is right behind while Petunia follows them.
" Erena please put Harry down I need his help with finding some paperwork for Ragknock and the office in my trunk isn't big enough for all of us." she says while opening the lid of her trunk to lead into the hallway.
Erena pouts as she lets Harry down then she looks around the room as the children enter the trunk.
" So do you normally go around picking up children..." Harry heard nothing more of what Petunia was asking Erena as he follows River into the office. River began rummaging through the desk as he walks around looking at the shelves and some trinkets she had placed on them when he hears a gasp from River.
Harry turns to see what caused her to gasp only to find a clear crystal with a bead of golden light in the center. He looks at the crystal while stepping around it to get to River when a beam of light shots out of it to hit his chest, he jumps back but when the light hits him he feels nothing.
'Umm Harry what's going on out there, the control panel for the system is running through alot of the data and I can't stop it, right now all I can do is sit here and watch.' Mia said in a panic as the light holds Harry in place for a few more minutes until it fades.
When the light fades the crystal flashes brightly then disappears, Harry and River can only watch and when it is gone she looks around for wherever it may have gone but she could not find it. "Well that's not what I thought that would do." she said in a whisper.
'Do a scan of the system and let me know what you find if you can, whatever that was is gone now. River and I will keep an eye out for it on our end. 'he tells Mia when the office door burst open with Erena and Petunia rushing at Harry.
"What is this about being left on a doorstep in the middle of the night during winter by the people who are supposed to care for you?" Erena ask while at the same time Petunia ask. "What dose she mean being your new mother for dozens of worlds and possibly hundreds of years?" both women are in a rage that causes Harry to jump back.
River sits in the chair of her desk and drops her head onto the desk causing the other's to jump at the slight thunk as her head hits. She sits up and starts shuffling around the papers until she finds the keyboard and hits a few keys. As she hit the last key a bubble forms around the room, then she waves at Harry to get his attention.
"Tell your story, we knew it would happen but just not this soon just remember that something's still need to be kept secret." she says while looking to Harry while she is hoping he keeps her identity secret.
Harry sat in a chair that grew out of the floor sighing, Petunia and Erena did the same as Harry began to tell them from his last birthday and how he had gone from world to world and how he wasn't exactly human anymore. Tears were running down his cheeks by the time he finished, he was afraid his aunt would no longer want him in the family.
Petunia was out of her chair like a shot and had Harry in her arms before he knew she had even moved.
Erena just sat there as she went over his story and how much she had not known of his life, during all of their travel's he never let on about the weight he was feeling from the prophecy he mentioned knowing about his having to find and destroy someone that was on a path similar to Galbatorix only he didn't have dragons or enslaved Eldunari to bolster his powers.
River sat in her chair listening to him speak and even with living in the same home with him for the last six years and she did not know he feared losing their love. She shed her own tears at the realization that she did not fully understand the stress he had hidden.
After a long time hugging him Petunia let's her grip loosen up and lean's back to look into his eyes. " You silly boy we knew about that prophecy and it is one of the reasons we brought you to Japan to learn all you could before Hogwarts." she said as she reached to ruffle his hair.
After a few seconds she stood and looked to River a question in her eyes. "I'm Summer's replacement, once I mature I'll have all the power she had but I won't lose it like she did when Harry first grabbed her." River said as she looks to the others in the room. "I knew some of what Harry has been trough but not that he was weighed down by it this much."
Erena stood and walks to Harry gently pushing Petunia to the side and pulls Harry from his chair and holds him in her normal fashion while resting her cheek on the top of his head.
"Even though we've been through a long travel you are still only a hatchling, don't think you have to do it all alone. A mother even if only in words, or some strange magical accident your mother's will have you stop this thinking and finish your schooling and then live until fate decides it's time to fulfill the role it has set for you." she said while gesturing between Petunia and herself. Petunia nods and smiles.
River got up from her seat and walked around the desk. " You know if you keep it in like that again I'll have to release Ivy and Luna on you and maybe bribe Shirone to help them." she says with a smirk as Harry pales at the thought of those three ganging up on him.
The last time that happened he ended up walking around with blue, purple and green hair while all his clothes would change into dresses when he put them on.
Petunia burst out laughing when she remembers that and how he had only went back to bed when they were distracted by Sera's show. Erena was confused until Petunia and River told that story, she then smiles and offers to teach the three some things once she meets them.
Once they all stopped laughing and Harry regained some color Petunia set's out some new rules. " When this session is over you are going to tell your uncle and cousins what you think they'll need to know." as she speaks she looks to Erena. " Not sure how to explain you outside the family, but for now a long lost family member that found us during the school." she says with a shrug.
After everyone agreed to this and straightened up River went to the keyboard and turned off the barrier and left the trunk once River found the envelope she originally came in for.
When they exited the trunk a gong sounded from somewhere outside. They ran to the window to see if they could find the source. A shadow was passing over the school grounds and several people could be seen panicking.
River looked up only to find a bowl shaped bottom of something that had four long shafts topped with large brazers with blue green flames burning brightly. She gasps and taps Harry's arm and points up once she knew she had his attention.
" I guess we know what that crystal was for now." she said as she kept her eyes on the new addition to the school.
After she said this a bright golden light shots out of the center of the bowl striking a statue of Summer that was holding out an open book.
"Welcome all to this place of learning, today represents the anniversary of the opening of the school, as This is a place of learning and growth I have set up a plan for you all to grow in not just magic but combat. The object you see above is known as Aincrad where any shall be given the opportunity to learn a new type of physical combat. Now I do not do this for you all to become delinquent's and violent but to be able to protect from possible threats, you will be given the chance to learn skills that you can not learn from previous training but do not forsake what you already have learned and trained in." The statue looks over the grounds of the school.
"A gate shall appear on each break and inside Aincrad the time will be one month, once the time has passed you will be brought back to the gate and Aincrad will be locked until the next break. When school sessions are over previously graduated students shall be invited to traverse Aincrad to save from disturbing classes. As this is new I formally extended this break for another week this one time only. Now I hope you all take this chance to grow and hope even more that though you will learn the skills you never have to use them other than during dueling, Now go forth and bring forth a brighter future for all around for everyone." the statue of Summer smiles brightly and returns to it's previous state.
As the statue returns to it's place a pinging soun comes from River's trunk. She turns and runs back inside it and to her office where the control screen is flickering, as she looks at the screen a grin spread across her face as she reads through what is happening. The Regal Gear system has attached itself to Aincrad's first boss. This saved her from trying to figure out what to do with it.
Harry came into the office as she was finished reading and sits in the chair again while looking even paler than he did when threatened with the three terror's.
" I'm not sure if I can go there again, I saw so many people either die or just give up hope." he said as he looks at nothing in particular.
"Ummm Harry I can give you a reason to give it a go." as she said this she turns the screen so that he can see a rather long list of names and at the top of the list were three names she knew he would want to see.
He looks to the screen and after reading he leaps from his chair and runs out of the office and trunk, not slowing down he runs and jump's through the open window and shifting to his Phoenix form and flies up to Aincrad.
An: I know I screwed up in the beginning of the story I had written that the system would activate at age ten and in the last chapter it activated and Harry was eleven if I can find out how to make my edits stick I'll go fix it and apologize for the mess up now.
