Chapter 2-The Journey to Tiki's

Dumbledores letter was resassuring, and worrying at the same time. Harry was pleased with himself, for getting a home so quickly. He was also happy that it was approved by Dumbledore, which meant he would be safer than most other places. He was worried about who he was staying with. He had never heard of anyone named Tiki, and he wasn't sure how this person would be. Being sent off to an unknown place wasn't exactly easy. The main reason Harry was worried was because he ddn't know how he was going to be picked up by Tiki, either way, he would pack his things soon, because he didn't know when she would get here.

After reading the letter, Harry couldn't sleep anymore, so at 2:30 he began to put his stuff into his trunk. He took off his books, and all of his homework, and put it in the trunk. After about 10 min of packing, he got his invisibility cloak, and his firebolt out from under his bed. These were the 2 most precious things he owned, and he packed them carefully.

When he finished packing, he tried to go to sleep again. He couldn't. After about 30 minutes of tossing and turning, he funally fell asleep. He woke up a few hours later, tired, and with a powerful light shining in his eyes.

2 women stood next to him, 1 holding her lit wand out, shining it at Harry's eyes.

"HEY! Get that light out of my eyes" Harry protested.

"Calm down young boy, I am Tiki, and this is my niece Natassja(Na-ta-sha). We are here to take you, on Dumbledores orders."

Just then Harry noticed the second girl next to the woman. She was beautiful, with brown eyes, and long brown hair. She was about 5"3', and Harry thought she was prettier than Cho Chang. Tiki immediately noticed Harry staring at Nattassja, and snapped her fingers in his face to wake him up.

"Its time to go child, I hope you have your things packed..." she said as she grabbed the trunk, and heaved it onto a large cart Harry hadn't noticed until now. Harry got up, and tried to fix his hair as best he could without anyone noticing. To his dissapointment, Natassja did notice, and she giggled. Harry tried to smooth it over by smiling at her. She giggled again.

Just then Harry had wondered something, 'How did they get here, and how are we leaving?'

"How are we leaving?" He asked Tiki.

"Well, Nattasja and I got here by apparating, but since you can't, we came a little more prepared. Its sort of compliacated, and a very old method of transport indeed, but if you look at this cart here you will get your answser."

Just then Tiki pulled out her wand, which happened to be different shades of green and orange, and waved it a few times over the cart, which all of a sudden started to change shape. After about 20 seconds, Harry stood before what looked like a..well it looked like a catapult.

"See, this here catapult, is called the bastard launcher, named after its inventor. What you do is you sit right there, and then tell it were you want it to go, and it will, well, "throw" you there. Only problem is it was made illegal, because its sort of inaccurate, and while you are in the air, you are going so fast that you can't be seen, which made smuggling goods into, and out of the country, too easy for authority to stop. Don't worry child, you going to ride with Natassja. She will make sure you don't break your neck on the landing. Also Harry, I want you to take your broomstick, so in case you do fall off, you can guide yourseld down, and wait for me there. I will apparate to the landing spot to bring you guys in, so just be careful."

Harry became more nervous then ever. He would have to do something he had never even heard of before, and he would be doing it with a very pretty girl, who he didn't want to look stupid in front of.

Not sure as to how exactly this would work, he just stood there, and after a few seconds, Nattasja climbed on top of the machine, belly down, arms spread out wide. Harry, assuming he was supposed to, did the same. He wrapped his arms around her waist, and heard Tiki yell "3..2..1.." before he was sent into the air at a speed unmatched by even his Firebolt.

The rush of it all made Harry feel like he was flying. He was being hurtled forward so far, and so fast, that he wondered why nobody had ever done this before. Soon however his mind drifted to other things.

Harry was holding on to Natassja, and for some odd reason, he enjoyed it. He started feeling for Nattasja like he did for Cho Chang, his crush for his first 4 years at Hogwarts. Harry became so caught up in the moment, that he didn't notice Nattassja losing grip of her wand.

"Grab it Harry! I'm going to drop my wand, it was a gift from my grandmother, and i can't lose it."

But it was too late. The wand fell out of Nattassja's hand, and started its fall to the ground. Harry didn't even think about what he was doing, but he let go of Nattassja, and jumped onto his Firebolt. He was going to get her wand back, but he had to work quickly, because if he wasnt on the cart, he could be seen by muggles.

He went into a dive, going down, and grabed the wand, but Harry knew he would get it, just didn't know how he would get back. He could see Nattassja going faster than his Firebolt, and then he had an idea. He stood up straight on his broom, and jumped. If he didn't make this jump, it would have ended there, but he just stretched out his arm, and hung in the air for what seemed like forever.

Hand outstrecthed, and hoping to land, Harry was in the air. He looked forward and Nattassja was only inches away. YES, he grabbed her hand, got pulled onto the cart, turned around and yelled Accio Firebolt with Nattassja's wand. The Firebolt pulled out of its plummet, and zoomed right into Harry's hand. Now all they could do was hope he wasn't seen.

From then on, it was sooth sailing. They flew threw the air, for about 15 more minutes, when Harry saw it. A HUGE pillow about 400 yards away was waiting on the floor. Then the cart began tp descend. At about 50 feet off the ground, it pulled out of the dive, into a smooth gluide, and after about 30 seconds, they hit the cushion going just over 20 miles per hour.

When they landed, Nattassja began to thank him for what he did.

"Oh Harry, thank you so much. I don't know what I would have done with myself if I lost my Grandmother's wand. It has 1 drop of dragon's blood, and the scale of a mermaid, one of the most rarest wand ingredients found today. Very powerful." Said Nattassja with a smile on her face bigger than Harry could imagine.

"Oh, it was a piece of cake, don't even worry about it Nattassja." Harry said, so happy that he impressed her.

"My friends call me Natt, its much easier, but theres 1 thing I don't understand, how is it that you were able to see the cart, when nobody can see it unless you are riding it?"

"What? I didn't even notice that, I mean I saw it right in front of me. Maybe you can see it when you are going really fast?"

Just then Tiki who had been running over since they landed, caught up to Natt and Harry.

"Don't tell her about the wand, I don't want her to know that I almost lost it OK Harry." Natt said to Harry just before Tiki arrived. Harry just nodded.

"Is everything alright children, it looked like you had a smooth landing." After making sure they were alright she said, "Well then lets get moving shall we, its not exactly a short walk to were we're going."

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Well, thats Chapter 2 for ya. I am not sure how i shud go from there. I think i went away from the original JK style harry potter writing, which i will work on for the next chapter. Im not sure exactly which direction to go with Natt, should she be a huge part of Harrys life, and them go out, and make it a large part of the story, or would it flow more if she were like a good friend who harry had a crush on. Just tell me what u think in a review. I have some pretty good ideas as to how she affects the future, but this is still up in the air, so just r/r please.