Chapter One
"I can give
you anything you desire, my dear little boy," whispered the transparent blue
image of a woman. "I'm not a little boy and what do you mean you can give me
anything?" She smiled, a sly and devious smile, "I am Farore, I can control everything,
the earth, life, death, time, the whole universe bows down to me". "Alright,
Farore is it? Why haven't I ever heard of you? If you are so almightily and
powerful." She chuckled, "Silly child, there are very few that are blessed by
my presence and you are one of them." The boy looked at her, confusion filling
his shimmering green eyes, "Oh? And why is it that I am blessed with
your presence?" Harry asked. "Because you and your little friends decided to
tempt fate and play MY game" "Your game? Athena's Quest is yours?" "Why yes it
is, you know I really should warn you of my great ancestor, who will be
attending your school this year." Harry looked puzzled? "What? What does that
have to do with anything?" "Ahh you'll see little one, I think you should
awaken now" "Huh?" With that Harry
found himself awake, looking up at the ceiling of Ron's room at the burrow. He
looked around and decided he should tell someone about that dream before he
forgot it. It was one of the strangest dreams he ever had. "Ron" he whispered,
"Ron, are you awake?" Ron groaned "Well I am now that you woke me up" "Sorry I
just have to tell you about this dream I had".
***
At
breakfast Ron was still questioning Harry about his dream. "She said her
ancestor was going to be at Hogwarts this year?" "Yeah, something like that.
Maybe Hermione knows about her, if anyone would know she would" "Yeah, that's
true" "Come on you two, you'd better get off to Diagon Alley or you'll be
late!" called Mrs. Weasley "Ok, ok Mom, geeze you know Hermione won't mind if
we're like two minutes late" "Here" she said, handing Ron the Floo Powder. Oh
great, Floo Powder, thought Harry. I can't wait till I can apperate. They
each grabbed a pinch and yelled "Diagon Alley!" They were off, whirling through
green flames and shot out onto the busy London street of Diagon Alley. "There
you two are, it's about time. Come on lets get to Flourish and Blots!" Ron
muttered to Harry under his breath "Why is she always so enthusiastic about
school?" Harry snickered "She's Hermione" "Oh yeah, that's right" They both
followed her trying not to laugh. By the time they had finished at Flourish and
Blots they were all loaded down with tons of books, Hermione, of course, had
the most of all of them. "I'm so excited about this year" she said "Oh….ow!"
she cried out as a fairly large brown owl swooped down on her and dropped a
letter from Hogwarts into her hands. She opened it and read it
Miss Granger,
We are
pleased to announce that as the top girl in your class we have decided to make
you a prefect. Congratulations!
Deputy Headmistress,
Minerva McGonagall
"Wow! Guys guess what?" "You're a prefect!" They exclaimed
in unison and burst out laughing. "We knew you would be Hermione" said Harry
"But congratulations all the same" "Thanks guys, we'd better get to the Leaky
Cauldron and check into our rooms" "Yeah let's go. Harry, Ron and Hermione had
decided it would be better for them to stay overnight at the leaky cauldron and
then catch the Hogwarts Express at King's Cross tomorrow morning. That night
they all sat around a table, sipping butterbeer, which the owner had bought
from Madam Rosmerta. Harry explained his dream to Hermione. "Oh that is
interesting, do you think we'll have a transfer student? I've never heard of
Farore before, but Athena, well she was a Roman Goddess, a brave warrior, so a
game about her quests makes perfect sense but I don't know where we would find
such a game." "Neither do I," said Harry. "Farore said that she controls the
universe, that it bows down to her and that she could grant me anything I
wanted." "If you ask me it sounds too good to be true" said Ron "I agree" added
Hermione. "Well we'd better go off to bed" said Harry. "Yeah, night guys" said
Hermione as she turned to go up to her room. "Night Hermione" they said. "Well
Harry, it should be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, if we get a new
student or whatever." Harry nodded "Night, Ron"
