Chapter 5
"Goddamn it! Why the heck couldn't that Dumbly guy pick a better time to get up?!" Duo growled as they walked over to the fire place. Wufei had managed to live through Harry's rampage thanks to Hermione who had saved him. Duo was hissing at the early morning. Heero was . . . well. . . Heero. Trowa was silent listening to Quatra who talked about their last mission. Draco was rather grumpy about the whole ordeal, since he didn't have any one worth while to talk to. Pansy didn't count, she just jabbered until he was sure his ears would fall off. It's times like this that he sorta envied Potter, as much as he hated to admit it. Oh well, at least he didn't have scar on his forehead. Ron smiled and took some powder out of a glass bowl.
"This is how you travel by floo powder. You shout the name of the place you want to go, and you're there! Watch." Ron instructed and walked into the fireplace. "Diagon Alley!" He yelled and threw the fistful of powder down. Bright green flames swallowed him up and he vanished.
"What?!" Duo yelled. "Why the heck do you want to do that?! He just killed himself, those flames burned him so fast there's nothing left!" Heero sighed, Wufei smirked.
"Scared Duo?" He asked putting a pale hand on Duo's trembling shoulder. He jumped.
"No! Of course not. Why should I be scared of green flames that swallow you up?" He demanded, his voice taking a somewhat high pitch. Heero snorted. Draco sneered.
"Scared? And I thought Gryffindors were brave." Duo scowled.
"I'll show you!" he hissed, grabbed some powder and walked into the fireplace.
"Duo! Don't do anything rash!" Quatra warned. Duo didn't here him, either that, he ignored the blonde.
"Daygon Alley!" He yelled and threw down the powder.
"He screwed up as usual. Any idea where he'll end up?" Wufei asked Hermione as the green flame vanished.
"No idea, but that last time this happened Harry ended up in Knockturn alley so . . . maybe. . . ." Heero sighed.
"Duo can take care of himself." Heero declared and grabbed a handful of the white powder doing the process perfectly, he was soon standing next to Ron brushing soot of his robes.
"What took you so long?"
"Duo went before me. I take it that he isn't here, wonder where he went off to." Heero said with a grin, which was a fairly odd look for his usually stern face. Wufei came pouring down the chimney next, then Trowa and Quatra, followed by Hermione, Draco, Pansy and lastly Harry.
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"God dammit! Why couldn't we just fly there or something?!" Duo demanded as he walked through a dingy place, he was in the process of cleaning of his hair of soot when he bumped smack into someone.
"Watch it BOY." A voice said coldly, putting stress on the word boy. Duo looked up.
"Whoa, you look like an elder copy of that guy we were with." Duo muttered. Standing up he brushed himself off and smiled.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Duo Maxwell." He said offering a hand, the man stared at Duo as if he were crazy. (Which I Don't doubt.) Lucius Malfoy sternly walked off ignoring the hand.
"Whoa, talk about your stiffs." Duo said looking at the retreating back of the man, then walked out of the alley into a twisting maze.
"Drydon Alley?! Where the heck is that?!" Duo demanded. As he looked around he saw all sorts of weird things in the windows of shops. One shop had a weird looking, giant, furry, spider head on a stand, only Duo's trained stomach stopped him from hurling. He sighed and walked on, luckily enough he came out into a bright street which had a sign on it reading 'Diagon Alley' Duo smiled.
"I am so damn GOOD!" He cheered to himself and began to jump and cheer. He jumped so high that he tripped and fell right onto a glaring youth.
"Wha-?! Oh, hiya Hee-chan!" Duo said smiling blissfully unaware to the death glare he was receiving from those cobalt blue eyes. Draco snorted, Quatra sighed and Wufei grinned with that all knowing smile of his. Trowa was still as usual, face impassive. Harry was snickering and Ron was grinning like a maniac. Hermione only sighed.
"Where did you turn up Duo?" Harry asked. Duo shrugged.
"Some place called Drydon Alley. Why?"
"What?!" Harry demanded, face turning into shock. "That's one of the most dark magic places in the world!"
"Really? Speaking of which, I saw this guy who looks JUST like you!" Duo said pointing to Draco.
"Really?" Hermione asked fitting two and two together.
"Yep. So we going yet?" Duo asked grinning.
"Duo. I don't mean to intrude, but could you get OFF?!?!?!" Heero demanded glaring death rays out of his eyes. Duo yelped and scrambled off the very pissed off Heero who stood up and sighed, walking along the street conversation returned to normal, at least as normal as it could get.
"So what are we supposed to get?" Duo asked Heero who walked along silently.
"Hn." Heero said dully.
"Heero! Try being a little more social. Please?!" The braided youth pleaded. Silence.
"Scrooge." Duo hissed and grabbed the letter out of Heero's pocket in his robes. Heero scowled but didn't bother going after the youth who grinned and read the letter out loud.
"Okay, we need . . . . well, mainly nothing. It's says that we're supposed to get customized with the magic world. Plus we need a wand, and a BROOMSTICK?! If we wish? What the hell does that mean?!" Heero glared.
"Not so loud you baka." He hissed and walked away. Duo sighed and went back to the letter.
"That's about it."
"A broom? Do you want to try out for the team? We have some new positions open. Our beaters are sort of terrible. Thank goodness that it's the beginning of the year and that the teams haven't started playing yet. But the next game is in two weeks. Harry is kind of frantic, he was appointed team captain you know!" She said proudly and Harry blushed.
"Yeah, yeah, stupid saint Potter and all his wonderful positions." Draco hissed rolling his eyes. Ron smirked.
"You're just jealous cause you only got to be team captain of the Slytherin house team. You're jealous that Harry got to be head boy!"
"Weasel, it anything I'm glad that Potter got the position, cause if he didn't then the mudblood might have. Heaven forbid that we get a school run by that piece of filth." Hermione frowned, but decided to not let it get to her. Wufei who had, had enough of this squabble turned around and hissed
"The next one who utters an insult or argues will have a lightning bolt down his or her throat." The youth threatened and then continued walking. Malfoy was about to retort when something hit him squarely on the back of the head and wrapped brown tendrils around his mouth to keep him from yabbing. Pansy shrieked and Heero came running back.
"What the hell-?!"
"Excellent test! Worked wonders, and the git who we tested it on isn't hurt. Though that might be a bad thing. . . ." A cheerful voice muttered and walked next to Draco and observed the youth who was now trying to pry the thing off his head.
"Hey George!" Ron said happily.
"Great timing. What is that?" Harry asked pointing to the red object that was now wrapping suction covered tentacles around the blonde haired boy's nose.
"Jabber jammers. They stop all useless talk, actually they stop ALL talk. We're just testing it. OI! Fred! Over here." The red head called and his twin walked over, the other's couldn't help but notice that the other twin had a rather nice silver necklace around his neck. That and a rather sturdy bow (The ones you used in the old days to shoot arrows) was placed in his hand.
"I take it from that-" Ron said pointing to the necklace "That things are going great as usual?"
"Wonderful." Fred said grinning. He bent over Malfoy, and grinned. "Good aim neh? Hit one of the most useless talkers on the earth." They both laughed. Then looked at the group.
"Say now Ron, what're you doin with Malfoy and the pug? And who is this lot?" George wanted to know.
"My name is-" Duo began when a large sound of panic reached their ears, everyone looked down at Malfoy who had started to scream because he couldn't breath. Even Hermione was kind of scared.
"Maybe you should take it off?"
"Don't know how."
"WHAT?!" Hermione yelled. George grinned. Malfoy screamed even louder, though it wasn't heard all too well because of obvious reasons.
"I'm joking Hermione. Relax." The red heads grinned and Fred knelt down and tickled the squid gently, slowly, it released it's death grip on Malfoy and crawled up Fred's arm. He sighed and poked the thing on the head where it went ridged and straight like an arrow. Fred grinned.
"How's about stopping at our shop for a proper introduction?" George suggested.
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Entering the shop, Heero, Duo, Wufei, Quatra, Trowa, Harry, Ron and Hermione sat down. Malfoy and the pug refused to walk into the store.
"So, what's your name? I'm sure you've heard of ours up at the school. Fred and George Weasly." The youths said pointing to each himself or his twin when his name was mentioned. Fred set down some cups of orange juice on the table.
"Drink up." No one moved, except Quatra. He was picking up the glass with a thank you when Trowa put a firm hand on the blonde's wrist and took the glass, setting it down he glared at Fred and George.
"What?" The twin's chorused.
"What did you do to them?" Ron wanted to know.
"Nothing!"
"Oh yeah, sure, the last time you said that mom walloped you on the head with her broom because you fed a tongue color changing potion to Ginny, instead her SKIN turned purple." Ron remarked with a sour look.
"You also have that look." Heero replied folding his arms over his chest.
"look?"
"The one Duo had when he dumped the mud on Heero." Wufei said quietly. Duo scowled.
"Damn, I thought I hid my emotions!" The pilot complained.
"Introductions first, then we get to the insults later." Trowa said quietly.
"Heero Yuy."
"Duo Maxwell."
"Trowa Barton."
"Quatra Rabarbera Winner."
"Wufei Chang."
"New students?" Fred asked Hermione who nodded in reply.
"Hey Fred!" A voice called out from the back.
"Yes?"
"You have an order from Neville. He's asking if you can send him something to get out of potions." A girl stepped out, her brown hair tumbling in curls around her shoulder. Green eyes and a somewhat slim figure to match. She wore muggle clothes, jeans and a white shirt.
"Really? Good, the old boy is getting better at being sneaky. How's about the new Cough Capsule?" Fred suggested.
"Hey Sarah!" Ron called out smiling.
"Sarah?" Duo whispered to Ron who shrugged.
"My brother's girlfriend."
"Which one?!"
"Fred."
"Great! We just finished it. Say Ron, how about a few, guaranteed to make you cough out some blood at the VERY least. Then you eat the antidote and you're good as new." George offered. Ron smiled, so did Harry, they both needed to get out of a few hateful classes. Harry potions, Ron Divination. Harry would have liked to get out of potions, but to be an Auror he had to take it, Damn. Heero decided to walk around the area. Stepping out into the sun he walked around, taking in everything, including the looks the girls were giving him. He walked past a book shop that had 'Flourish and Blotts' written on the top of it and he proceeded to a shop where a lot of kids were crowding around. Stepping into the store he was suddenly flashed by red lights and falling streamers.
"Congratulations SIR!" A man said running up to Heero and shaking his hand. "You are the ten millionth customer. Which means you get two of the newest brooms for free!" He said and pushed two broom like shapes into his hands. They were wrapped in brown tissue paper.
"Come again! Please note you also get this complementary kit on taking care of your brooms." He dumped a black case into Heero's arms.
"Have a good day!" He said and pushed Heero out into the street. Heero, who still had small bits of confetti in his hair turned around slowly, a confused expression on his face.
"What?"
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"Hey Heero, go shopping already? Whatcha got?" Duo asked when Heero reentered the shop with two brown packages and a black box in his arms.
"I don't know, I just walked into a shop and this man gave me all this stuff, kept saying something that I was a winner or something." Heero said, for once in his life perplexed. Harry looked over.
"Wait a sec. . . YOU WON THE BROOM CONTEST?! Good lord, it means you get two of the newest model brooms." He tore off the wrapping of the brooms and smiled.
"Yep, just like mine. This is the Thunderbolt, an update on the Firebolt." Ron came over and whistled at the new and shiny brooms.
"Man, if you guys don't want em, I'll take them!" He offered. Hermione smacked Ron on the head.
"What about the Firebolt?!" She whispered to him harshly. "You know how much it took for Harry to give it up for you!!! He knew you'd been wanting that broom for ages. And you also know that it was what Sirius gave him for his birthday you dolt!" She hissed. Ron's face dropped. Duo listened to this with interest. So did Heero.
"Never mind, I got a better broom." Ron said quickly. Harry smiled.
~~~
"Let's see what wand you shall have." The man said eerily, Duo slunk away, that guy was really freaking him out. The man picked a box off the shelves and opened it to reveal a dark and black wand.
"Try this." He said pushing it towards Duo. The youth took it silently and then stared.
"Now what?!" He demanded, everyone sighed.
"You wave it dummy." Wufei yelled walking up, taking Duo's wrist and moving it down in a swift motion. It did something odd. It let out a shower of gold powder and also broke the vase on the side. The man blanched.
"Mr. Maxwell, please try alone." He asked politely. Duo waved it, and one of his papers exploded. Duo shrugged and reading the man's mind handed it to Wufei who waved it and sent a bright line of white through the area. It spiraled higher and higher until in vanished.
"Well, clearly that wand is for Mr. Chang." Mr. Ollivander said with a smile. He put the wand in a box and handed it to Wufei.
"12 inches, maple wood and very flexible with a single Unicorn hair. Very nice. 5 galleons." He said promptly which Wufei paid without question. Then stepped out into the street and waited outside shivering a bit. That man was creepy.
"Alright Mr. Maxwell. Hmm . . . . this one is 11 inches, made of oak wood and has a pixie hair for a core. Playful things Pixies are. Have a go." He said, Duo took it, then smiled and whipped it around. All of a sudden a bucket of water appeared over Draco's head and dumped the contents on him. Duo laughed his head off and the other's smirked.
"Very good, as I said Pixies are playful things." He said smiling cheerfully, Malfoy was beside himself with rage. Duo paid 6 galleons and stood outside next to Wufei. Quatra was next.
"Ah, Mr. Winner. Are you by any chance related to Mr. Malfoy? You're hair color is perfectly the same."
"HE IS NOT!" Malfoy yelled out angrily. Quatra shook his head.
"I'm not related to Mr. Malfoy." He said quite calmly. The man nodded. Walking around the shop, he picked one wand off a shelf and handed it to Quatra.
"Mahogany wood, 13 inches, a bit whippy and has a phoenix tail as a core." He said smiling. Quatra took it and raised his hand a bit when it was snatched out of his hand.
"No, not quite." Mr. Ollivander said and rushed away leaving Quatra standing there perplexed with his arm still raised. A few seconds later the man came rushing back with a new wand.
"Oak. 11 ½ inches, a bit stiff, but excellent for transfiguration. A shapeshifter's hair, although I can't tell you what kind, it always kept changing appearance." Quatra took it again and was about to wave it when it was snatched from his hand again.
"No, that's not it either." He murmured and walked off. Quatra, once again, was left standing confused. 3 wands later and a lot of complains from Draco and Pansy, it seems they finally found the wand.
"14 inches, with a Hippogriff feather core." He said wrapping it in a box. 6 galleons later Quatra was walking out the door when a large cry of;
"TAKE THAT!" Could be heard as Quatra opened the door.
"DUO! Cut that out!"
"C'mon Wuffles, we have wands, LET'S USE 'EM!!" Wufei ran past the door shielding his head with his arms as Duo shot another spell at him. Quatra gulped and stepped out the door slamming it behind him.
"Let's see now." He walked up to Trowa who glared unblinkingly back. The man whisked away into the seemingly endless shelves and smiled.
"Here we are!" He said triumphantly, taking the wand out of the box he handed it to Trowa. The youth sighed as he took it and gave up a prayer before sending it down with a whoosh. A fraction later the wand sent out a jolt of lightening that cracked a window.
"Er. . . .not quite." He proclaimed and took that wand back. Trowa sighed.
"Good lord, how much longer is this going to take?!" Draco yelled out angrily. Heero sighed. Trowa growled and seized a wand off the desk and pointed it at Draco. A small and white spiraling line shot out and struck him on the forehead, causing the blonde to pass out. Trowa smiled. Mr. Ollivander came back.
"Ah, 12 inches, maple wood. Rather flexible and has a unicorn hair. 6 galleons and 2 sickles Mr. Barton." Trowa paid quietly a small and smug grin on his face. With that he walked outside. Heero was the last one left. Heero went through at least 20 boxes without a single match, or anything close to it. Finally Mr. Ollivander came across a box he had not seen for years. He thought for a moment, then took it out and handed it to Heero.
"This wand is one of a kind, only one was made in existence. The wood is from a tree that grows in only China and Japan. It's the last remaining member of a family of trees that lived over 200 years ago. It's called the Maidenhood tree. The hair itself came from a very special creature. The eternal dragon." Gasps resounded at this. The Eternal Dragon was a dragon that was a creature just as powerful as Voldemort, if not stronger. The only reason it was dead now was because a band of wizards had formed years ago to stop it. Mr. Ollivander handed the wand to Heero who took it calmly. He waved it once and a dragon made of fire shot out of the end, it swooped around the shop then landed on Heero's shoulders. The flame vanished, leaving a red scaled and black eyed dragon with long and narrow wings that were orange on the underside. It let out a tiny croak and burrowed into the back of Heero's robes letting only it's head poke out. Heero looked at it surprised.
"No question, that wand is for you Mr. Yuy."
"How can you tell?!" Malfoy demanded.
"The last 10 people to test that wand all ended up being blasted to the back wall." Mr. Ollivander said, matter of fact and took the wand carefully. Putting it in a gold rimmed box he handed it to Heero.
"Free of charge." He said with a grim smile. Heero took it and nodded his head, then spun around and walked out.
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The next day, walking out onto the pitch Harry was followed by his team.
"Okay, so Ron is Keeper." Harry motioned to Ron. "Ginny is a chaser. So's Lee, and Dean is a beater. And I'm the seeker. We need two more people for this year's team." Harry murmured. (A/N: I think you can see where this is going *wink*) Heero trotted out, Duo pushing him.
"C'mon, you won these, you should at least test them out. And who knows, you might like it." The youth urged, Quatra, Trowa, Wufei and the dragon who sat on Quatra's shoulders all sat out on the stands watching this with interest. Heero grumbled something about irritable friends and held the broom out lightly. It had Thunderbolt written around the top with a thunderbolt for the 'T'. He sighed and got on. Gripping the handle tightly he kicked off and was soaring through the air, unprepared for the speed he narrowly missed crashing into the wall by turning down, and just as he was about to hit the ground turned up. Duo whistled.
"Man, Heero! Get some control! It can't be that hard can it?!" He yelled.
"You try it then you BAKA!" He yelled out. Duo shrugged and took the second broom Heero had won. Mounting it he kicked off and shot like a bullet up at the sky.
"WHOOO HOOOO!!" He yelled zipping all over the place. Quatra applauded laughing. Harry watched them with interest.
"Hey Duo! Heero! Get down here, I want to try something." He called out. Both landed swiftly. In just three minutes both had gotten expert control of their brooms.
"Wanna join the team?"
"Team?" Heero asked, one eyebrow raised. " Yeah, let's see what you can do." He said and pointed his wand.
"Accio case!" A black box flew over.
"OOF!" Duo yelled out as the case banged him in the gut. Heero smirked.
"Sorry bout' that Duo. Okay." He opened the case and smiled. Giving Duo a beater's club he asked Duo to fly up which the youth promptly did.
"I'm letting out the bludger! It will shoot at you, your job is to hit it um . . . . . Hey Hermione! Can you make some targets?!" He yelled out. Hermione nodded and pointed her wand. Green circles appeared all over the pitch.
"Thanks!" Harry yelled out. Turning back to the floating Duo he continued.
"Hit the bludger at the ring that is red. Okay? If it's green then let it be. Here we go!" Harry yelled and let the bludger go. It flew straight up, then bounded towards Duo who knocked it at the red ring. It went through the middle perfectly. He continued to hit the black ball at every ring until Harry smiled.
"Letting the second go." Harry yelled at Duo who nodded, with the second ball out Duo swerved and dodged the balls, sending them flying at the rings. 5 minutes later Malfoy, deciding to have a go and make fun of the Gryffindor team stepped out with the other Slytherin team behind him. All of them gaped at Duo who flew around the pitch in a blur and hit the bludgers relentlessly, and was actually flying after the bludgers to hit them again. The Gryffindor team was cheering. Duo landed grinning.
"Want to be on the team?! Please say yes!" Harry yelled out at Duo. Duo shrugged and nodded.
Harry then took out the quaffle and passed it to Heero who caught it one handed.
"Wanna try?"
"Sure. What do I do?" Heero asked quietly.
"Simple, it's like Muggle Basketball. All you have to do, is get past the opposing team's players and score in the hoops. Okay?" Malfoy saw a golden opportunity.
"Are you kidding? You're sending a rookie out onto the field? Potter your more stupid then I thought." The Slytherin team let out large guffaws at this. Heero stared.
"I take it you're an opposing team?" Duo questioned. Malfoy nodded with a smirk.
"I'll take you all on alone." A cold voice interrupted. Everyone turned. Heero stood there smiling grimly.
"WHAT?!" Everyone yelled except Duo.
"I'll take all of you on alone." He said smiling. Malfoy smirked.
"You're on."
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When all of the players were in the air Trowa stood up acting as referee. Even as the youth was in Slytherin, he would favor no one. He looked up, then threw the Quaffle up into the air. The snitch wasn't played in this game. It would go until one team had 50 points. As soon as the Quaffle was up, it was gone. Vanished in a blue of black robes. Heero sped towards the goal post and scored twice before anyone knew what was happening. A magical counter showed that Gryffindor had 20 points.
"What?!" Malfoy yelled. He signaled to his beaters to get him. Both players batted the black balls at Heero who kicked them both back. Return to sender. The two Slytherins fell off their brooms as Heero stole the Quaffle and scored twice more. Then he sent a bludger and Malfoy's head who shrieked and fell from his broom only to be saved by Duo who grabbed the boy by his shirt.
"Wouldn't want you to die now would we?" The pilot asked grinning. Malfoy looked down and saw he was fifty feet in the air.
"GET ME DOWN!!" He yelled. Heero scored once more. Game over, Heero wins.
"I'll play for your team Harry." Heero said smiling and tossed the red ball at the team captain who laughed his ass off and Malfoy's red face. The whole team joined in as Harry chanted;
"Slytherins givin in, Slytherins givin in." Heero heard this and smiled as he walked off the pitch.
'I am so damn good.'
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Gundam Wing. I only own the plot, and don't worry. Zechs and the others will come into play soon.
"Goddamn it! Why the heck couldn't that Dumbly guy pick a better time to get up?!" Duo growled as they walked over to the fire place. Wufei had managed to live through Harry's rampage thanks to Hermione who had saved him. Duo was hissing at the early morning. Heero was . . . well. . . Heero. Trowa was silent listening to Quatra who talked about their last mission. Draco was rather grumpy about the whole ordeal, since he didn't have any one worth while to talk to. Pansy didn't count, she just jabbered until he was sure his ears would fall off. It's times like this that he sorta envied Potter, as much as he hated to admit it. Oh well, at least he didn't have scar on his forehead. Ron smiled and took some powder out of a glass bowl.
"This is how you travel by floo powder. You shout the name of the place you want to go, and you're there! Watch." Ron instructed and walked into the fireplace. "Diagon Alley!" He yelled and threw the fistful of powder down. Bright green flames swallowed him up and he vanished.
"What?!" Duo yelled. "Why the heck do you want to do that?! He just killed himself, those flames burned him so fast there's nothing left!" Heero sighed, Wufei smirked.
"Scared Duo?" He asked putting a pale hand on Duo's trembling shoulder. He jumped.
"No! Of course not. Why should I be scared of green flames that swallow you up?" He demanded, his voice taking a somewhat high pitch. Heero snorted. Draco sneered.
"Scared? And I thought Gryffindors were brave." Duo scowled.
"I'll show you!" he hissed, grabbed some powder and walked into the fireplace.
"Duo! Don't do anything rash!" Quatra warned. Duo didn't here him, either that, he ignored the blonde.
"Daygon Alley!" He yelled and threw down the powder.
"He screwed up as usual. Any idea where he'll end up?" Wufei asked Hermione as the green flame vanished.
"No idea, but that last time this happened Harry ended up in Knockturn alley so . . . maybe. . . ." Heero sighed.
"Duo can take care of himself." Heero declared and grabbed a handful of the white powder doing the process perfectly, he was soon standing next to Ron brushing soot of his robes.
"What took you so long?"
"Duo went before me. I take it that he isn't here, wonder where he went off to." Heero said with a grin, which was a fairly odd look for his usually stern face. Wufei came pouring down the chimney next, then Trowa and Quatra, followed by Hermione, Draco, Pansy and lastly Harry.
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"God dammit! Why couldn't we just fly there or something?!" Duo demanded as he walked through a dingy place, he was in the process of cleaning of his hair of soot when he bumped smack into someone.
"Watch it BOY." A voice said coldly, putting stress on the word boy. Duo looked up.
"Whoa, you look like an elder copy of that guy we were with." Duo muttered. Standing up he brushed himself off and smiled.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Duo Maxwell." He said offering a hand, the man stared at Duo as if he were crazy. (Which I Don't doubt.) Lucius Malfoy sternly walked off ignoring the hand.
"Whoa, talk about your stiffs." Duo said looking at the retreating back of the man, then walked out of the alley into a twisting maze.
"Drydon Alley?! Where the heck is that?!" Duo demanded. As he looked around he saw all sorts of weird things in the windows of shops. One shop had a weird looking, giant, furry, spider head on a stand, only Duo's trained stomach stopped him from hurling. He sighed and walked on, luckily enough he came out into a bright street which had a sign on it reading 'Diagon Alley' Duo smiled.
"I am so damn GOOD!" He cheered to himself and began to jump and cheer. He jumped so high that he tripped and fell right onto a glaring youth.
"Wha-?! Oh, hiya Hee-chan!" Duo said smiling blissfully unaware to the death glare he was receiving from those cobalt blue eyes. Draco snorted, Quatra sighed and Wufei grinned with that all knowing smile of his. Trowa was still as usual, face impassive. Harry was snickering and Ron was grinning like a maniac. Hermione only sighed.
"Where did you turn up Duo?" Harry asked. Duo shrugged.
"Some place called Drydon Alley. Why?"
"What?!" Harry demanded, face turning into shock. "That's one of the most dark magic places in the world!"
"Really? Speaking of which, I saw this guy who looks JUST like you!" Duo said pointing to Draco.
"Really?" Hermione asked fitting two and two together.
"Yep. So we going yet?" Duo asked grinning.
"Duo. I don't mean to intrude, but could you get OFF?!?!?!" Heero demanded glaring death rays out of his eyes. Duo yelped and scrambled off the very pissed off Heero who stood up and sighed, walking along the street conversation returned to normal, at least as normal as it could get.
"So what are we supposed to get?" Duo asked Heero who walked along silently.
"Hn." Heero said dully.
"Heero! Try being a little more social. Please?!" The braided youth pleaded. Silence.
"Scrooge." Duo hissed and grabbed the letter out of Heero's pocket in his robes. Heero scowled but didn't bother going after the youth who grinned and read the letter out loud.
"Okay, we need . . . . well, mainly nothing. It's says that we're supposed to get customized with the magic world. Plus we need a wand, and a BROOMSTICK?! If we wish? What the hell does that mean?!" Heero glared.
"Not so loud you baka." He hissed and walked away. Duo sighed and went back to the letter.
"That's about it."
"A broom? Do you want to try out for the team? We have some new positions open. Our beaters are sort of terrible. Thank goodness that it's the beginning of the year and that the teams haven't started playing yet. But the next game is in two weeks. Harry is kind of frantic, he was appointed team captain you know!" She said proudly and Harry blushed.
"Yeah, yeah, stupid saint Potter and all his wonderful positions." Draco hissed rolling his eyes. Ron smirked.
"You're just jealous cause you only got to be team captain of the Slytherin house team. You're jealous that Harry got to be head boy!"
"Weasel, it anything I'm glad that Potter got the position, cause if he didn't then the mudblood might have. Heaven forbid that we get a school run by that piece of filth." Hermione frowned, but decided to not let it get to her. Wufei who had, had enough of this squabble turned around and hissed
"The next one who utters an insult or argues will have a lightning bolt down his or her throat." The youth threatened and then continued walking. Malfoy was about to retort when something hit him squarely on the back of the head and wrapped brown tendrils around his mouth to keep him from yabbing. Pansy shrieked and Heero came running back.
"What the hell-?!"
"Excellent test! Worked wonders, and the git who we tested it on isn't hurt. Though that might be a bad thing. . . ." A cheerful voice muttered and walked next to Draco and observed the youth who was now trying to pry the thing off his head.
"Hey George!" Ron said happily.
"Great timing. What is that?" Harry asked pointing to the red object that was now wrapping suction covered tentacles around the blonde haired boy's nose.
"Jabber jammers. They stop all useless talk, actually they stop ALL talk. We're just testing it. OI! Fred! Over here." The red head called and his twin walked over, the other's couldn't help but notice that the other twin had a rather nice silver necklace around his neck. That and a rather sturdy bow (The ones you used in the old days to shoot arrows) was placed in his hand.
"I take it from that-" Ron said pointing to the necklace "That things are going great as usual?"
"Wonderful." Fred said grinning. He bent over Malfoy, and grinned. "Good aim neh? Hit one of the most useless talkers on the earth." They both laughed. Then looked at the group.
"Say now Ron, what're you doin with Malfoy and the pug? And who is this lot?" George wanted to know.
"My name is-" Duo began when a large sound of panic reached their ears, everyone looked down at Malfoy who had started to scream because he couldn't breath. Even Hermione was kind of scared.
"Maybe you should take it off?"
"Don't know how."
"WHAT?!" Hermione yelled. George grinned. Malfoy screamed even louder, though it wasn't heard all too well because of obvious reasons.
"I'm joking Hermione. Relax." The red heads grinned and Fred knelt down and tickled the squid gently, slowly, it released it's death grip on Malfoy and crawled up Fred's arm. He sighed and poked the thing on the head where it went ridged and straight like an arrow. Fred grinned.
"How's about stopping at our shop for a proper introduction?" George suggested.
~~~
Entering the shop, Heero, Duo, Wufei, Quatra, Trowa, Harry, Ron and Hermione sat down. Malfoy and the pug refused to walk into the store.
"So, what's your name? I'm sure you've heard of ours up at the school. Fred and George Weasly." The youths said pointing to each himself or his twin when his name was mentioned. Fred set down some cups of orange juice on the table.
"Drink up." No one moved, except Quatra. He was picking up the glass with a thank you when Trowa put a firm hand on the blonde's wrist and took the glass, setting it down he glared at Fred and George.
"What?" The twin's chorused.
"What did you do to them?" Ron wanted to know.
"Nothing!"
"Oh yeah, sure, the last time you said that mom walloped you on the head with her broom because you fed a tongue color changing potion to Ginny, instead her SKIN turned purple." Ron remarked with a sour look.
"You also have that look." Heero replied folding his arms over his chest.
"look?"
"The one Duo had when he dumped the mud on Heero." Wufei said quietly. Duo scowled.
"Damn, I thought I hid my emotions!" The pilot complained.
"Introductions first, then we get to the insults later." Trowa said quietly.
"Heero Yuy."
"Duo Maxwell."
"Trowa Barton."
"Quatra Rabarbera Winner."
"Wufei Chang."
"New students?" Fred asked Hermione who nodded in reply.
"Hey Fred!" A voice called out from the back.
"Yes?"
"You have an order from Neville. He's asking if you can send him something to get out of potions." A girl stepped out, her brown hair tumbling in curls around her shoulder. Green eyes and a somewhat slim figure to match. She wore muggle clothes, jeans and a white shirt.
"Really? Good, the old boy is getting better at being sneaky. How's about the new Cough Capsule?" Fred suggested.
"Hey Sarah!" Ron called out smiling.
"Sarah?" Duo whispered to Ron who shrugged.
"My brother's girlfriend."
"Which one?!"
"Fred."
"Great! We just finished it. Say Ron, how about a few, guaranteed to make you cough out some blood at the VERY least. Then you eat the antidote and you're good as new." George offered. Ron smiled, so did Harry, they both needed to get out of a few hateful classes. Harry potions, Ron Divination. Harry would have liked to get out of potions, but to be an Auror he had to take it, Damn. Heero decided to walk around the area. Stepping out into the sun he walked around, taking in everything, including the looks the girls were giving him. He walked past a book shop that had 'Flourish and Blotts' written on the top of it and he proceeded to a shop where a lot of kids were crowding around. Stepping into the store he was suddenly flashed by red lights and falling streamers.
"Congratulations SIR!" A man said running up to Heero and shaking his hand. "You are the ten millionth customer. Which means you get two of the newest brooms for free!" He said and pushed two broom like shapes into his hands. They were wrapped in brown tissue paper.
"Come again! Please note you also get this complementary kit on taking care of your brooms." He dumped a black case into Heero's arms.
"Have a good day!" He said and pushed Heero out into the street. Heero, who still had small bits of confetti in his hair turned around slowly, a confused expression on his face.
"What?"
~~~
"Hey Heero, go shopping already? Whatcha got?" Duo asked when Heero reentered the shop with two brown packages and a black box in his arms.
"I don't know, I just walked into a shop and this man gave me all this stuff, kept saying something that I was a winner or something." Heero said, for once in his life perplexed. Harry looked over.
"Wait a sec. . . YOU WON THE BROOM CONTEST?! Good lord, it means you get two of the newest model brooms." He tore off the wrapping of the brooms and smiled.
"Yep, just like mine. This is the Thunderbolt, an update on the Firebolt." Ron came over and whistled at the new and shiny brooms.
"Man, if you guys don't want em, I'll take them!" He offered. Hermione smacked Ron on the head.
"What about the Firebolt?!" She whispered to him harshly. "You know how much it took for Harry to give it up for you!!! He knew you'd been wanting that broom for ages. And you also know that it was what Sirius gave him for his birthday you dolt!" She hissed. Ron's face dropped. Duo listened to this with interest. So did Heero.
"Never mind, I got a better broom." Ron said quickly. Harry smiled.
~~~
"Let's see what wand you shall have." The man said eerily, Duo slunk away, that guy was really freaking him out. The man picked a box off the shelves and opened it to reveal a dark and black wand.
"Try this." He said pushing it towards Duo. The youth took it silently and then stared.
"Now what?!" He demanded, everyone sighed.
"You wave it dummy." Wufei yelled walking up, taking Duo's wrist and moving it down in a swift motion. It did something odd. It let out a shower of gold powder and also broke the vase on the side. The man blanched.
"Mr. Maxwell, please try alone." He asked politely. Duo waved it, and one of his papers exploded. Duo shrugged and reading the man's mind handed it to Wufei who waved it and sent a bright line of white through the area. It spiraled higher and higher until in vanished.
"Well, clearly that wand is for Mr. Chang." Mr. Ollivander said with a smile. He put the wand in a box and handed it to Wufei.
"12 inches, maple wood and very flexible with a single Unicorn hair. Very nice. 5 galleons." He said promptly which Wufei paid without question. Then stepped out into the street and waited outside shivering a bit. That man was creepy.
"Alright Mr. Maxwell. Hmm . . . . this one is 11 inches, made of oak wood and has a pixie hair for a core. Playful things Pixies are. Have a go." He said, Duo took it, then smiled and whipped it around. All of a sudden a bucket of water appeared over Draco's head and dumped the contents on him. Duo laughed his head off and the other's smirked.
"Very good, as I said Pixies are playful things." He said smiling cheerfully, Malfoy was beside himself with rage. Duo paid 6 galleons and stood outside next to Wufei. Quatra was next.
"Ah, Mr. Winner. Are you by any chance related to Mr. Malfoy? You're hair color is perfectly the same."
"HE IS NOT!" Malfoy yelled out angrily. Quatra shook his head.
"I'm not related to Mr. Malfoy." He said quite calmly. The man nodded. Walking around the shop, he picked one wand off a shelf and handed it to Quatra.
"Mahogany wood, 13 inches, a bit whippy and has a phoenix tail as a core." He said smiling. Quatra took it and raised his hand a bit when it was snatched out of his hand.
"No, not quite." Mr. Ollivander said and rushed away leaving Quatra standing there perplexed with his arm still raised. A few seconds later the man came rushing back with a new wand.
"Oak. 11 ½ inches, a bit stiff, but excellent for transfiguration. A shapeshifter's hair, although I can't tell you what kind, it always kept changing appearance." Quatra took it again and was about to wave it when it was snatched from his hand again.
"No, that's not it either." He murmured and walked off. Quatra, once again, was left standing confused. 3 wands later and a lot of complains from Draco and Pansy, it seems they finally found the wand.
"14 inches, with a Hippogriff feather core." He said wrapping it in a box. 6 galleons later Quatra was walking out the door when a large cry of;
"TAKE THAT!" Could be heard as Quatra opened the door.
"DUO! Cut that out!"
"C'mon Wuffles, we have wands, LET'S USE 'EM!!" Wufei ran past the door shielding his head with his arms as Duo shot another spell at him. Quatra gulped and stepped out the door slamming it behind him.
"Let's see now." He walked up to Trowa who glared unblinkingly back. The man whisked away into the seemingly endless shelves and smiled.
"Here we are!" He said triumphantly, taking the wand out of the box he handed it to Trowa. The youth sighed as he took it and gave up a prayer before sending it down with a whoosh. A fraction later the wand sent out a jolt of lightening that cracked a window.
"Er. . . .not quite." He proclaimed and took that wand back. Trowa sighed.
"Good lord, how much longer is this going to take?!" Draco yelled out angrily. Heero sighed. Trowa growled and seized a wand off the desk and pointed it at Draco. A small and white spiraling line shot out and struck him on the forehead, causing the blonde to pass out. Trowa smiled. Mr. Ollivander came back.
"Ah, 12 inches, maple wood. Rather flexible and has a unicorn hair. 6 galleons and 2 sickles Mr. Barton." Trowa paid quietly a small and smug grin on his face. With that he walked outside. Heero was the last one left. Heero went through at least 20 boxes without a single match, or anything close to it. Finally Mr. Ollivander came across a box he had not seen for years. He thought for a moment, then took it out and handed it to Heero.
"This wand is one of a kind, only one was made in existence. The wood is from a tree that grows in only China and Japan. It's the last remaining member of a family of trees that lived over 200 years ago. It's called the Maidenhood tree. The hair itself came from a very special creature. The eternal dragon." Gasps resounded at this. The Eternal Dragon was a dragon that was a creature just as powerful as Voldemort, if not stronger. The only reason it was dead now was because a band of wizards had formed years ago to stop it. Mr. Ollivander handed the wand to Heero who took it calmly. He waved it once and a dragon made of fire shot out of the end, it swooped around the shop then landed on Heero's shoulders. The flame vanished, leaving a red scaled and black eyed dragon with long and narrow wings that were orange on the underside. It let out a tiny croak and burrowed into the back of Heero's robes letting only it's head poke out. Heero looked at it surprised.
"No question, that wand is for you Mr. Yuy."
"How can you tell?!" Malfoy demanded.
"The last 10 people to test that wand all ended up being blasted to the back wall." Mr. Ollivander said, matter of fact and took the wand carefully. Putting it in a gold rimmed box he handed it to Heero.
"Free of charge." He said with a grim smile. Heero took it and nodded his head, then spun around and walked out.
~~~
The next day, walking out onto the pitch Harry was followed by his team.
"Okay, so Ron is Keeper." Harry motioned to Ron. "Ginny is a chaser. So's Lee, and Dean is a beater. And I'm the seeker. We need two more people for this year's team." Harry murmured. (A/N: I think you can see where this is going *wink*) Heero trotted out, Duo pushing him.
"C'mon, you won these, you should at least test them out. And who knows, you might like it." The youth urged, Quatra, Trowa, Wufei and the dragon who sat on Quatra's shoulders all sat out on the stands watching this with interest. Heero grumbled something about irritable friends and held the broom out lightly. It had Thunderbolt written around the top with a thunderbolt for the 'T'. He sighed and got on. Gripping the handle tightly he kicked off and was soaring through the air, unprepared for the speed he narrowly missed crashing into the wall by turning down, and just as he was about to hit the ground turned up. Duo whistled.
"Man, Heero! Get some control! It can't be that hard can it?!" He yelled.
"You try it then you BAKA!" He yelled out. Duo shrugged and took the second broom Heero had won. Mounting it he kicked off and shot like a bullet up at the sky.
"WHOOO HOOOO!!" He yelled zipping all over the place. Quatra applauded laughing. Harry watched them with interest.
"Hey Duo! Heero! Get down here, I want to try something." He called out. Both landed swiftly. In just three minutes both had gotten expert control of their brooms.
"Wanna join the team?"
"Team?" Heero asked, one eyebrow raised. " Yeah, let's see what you can do." He said and pointed his wand.
"Accio case!" A black box flew over.
"OOF!" Duo yelled out as the case banged him in the gut. Heero smirked.
"Sorry bout' that Duo. Okay." He opened the case and smiled. Giving Duo a beater's club he asked Duo to fly up which the youth promptly did.
"I'm letting out the bludger! It will shoot at you, your job is to hit it um . . . . . Hey Hermione! Can you make some targets?!" He yelled out. Hermione nodded and pointed her wand. Green circles appeared all over the pitch.
"Thanks!" Harry yelled out. Turning back to the floating Duo he continued.
"Hit the bludger at the ring that is red. Okay? If it's green then let it be. Here we go!" Harry yelled and let the bludger go. It flew straight up, then bounded towards Duo who knocked it at the red ring. It went through the middle perfectly. He continued to hit the black ball at every ring until Harry smiled.
"Letting the second go." Harry yelled at Duo who nodded, with the second ball out Duo swerved and dodged the balls, sending them flying at the rings. 5 minutes later Malfoy, deciding to have a go and make fun of the Gryffindor team stepped out with the other Slytherin team behind him. All of them gaped at Duo who flew around the pitch in a blur and hit the bludgers relentlessly, and was actually flying after the bludgers to hit them again. The Gryffindor team was cheering. Duo landed grinning.
"Want to be on the team?! Please say yes!" Harry yelled out at Duo. Duo shrugged and nodded.
Harry then took out the quaffle and passed it to Heero who caught it one handed.
"Wanna try?"
"Sure. What do I do?" Heero asked quietly.
"Simple, it's like Muggle Basketball. All you have to do, is get past the opposing team's players and score in the hoops. Okay?" Malfoy saw a golden opportunity.
"Are you kidding? You're sending a rookie out onto the field? Potter your more stupid then I thought." The Slytherin team let out large guffaws at this. Heero stared.
"I take it you're an opposing team?" Duo questioned. Malfoy nodded with a smirk.
"I'll take you all on alone." A cold voice interrupted. Everyone turned. Heero stood there smiling grimly.
"WHAT?!" Everyone yelled except Duo.
"I'll take all of you on alone." He said smiling. Malfoy smirked.
"You're on."
~~~
When all of the players were in the air Trowa stood up acting as referee. Even as the youth was in Slytherin, he would favor no one. He looked up, then threw the Quaffle up into the air. The snitch wasn't played in this game. It would go until one team had 50 points. As soon as the Quaffle was up, it was gone. Vanished in a blue of black robes. Heero sped towards the goal post and scored twice before anyone knew what was happening. A magical counter showed that Gryffindor had 20 points.
"What?!" Malfoy yelled. He signaled to his beaters to get him. Both players batted the black balls at Heero who kicked them both back. Return to sender. The two Slytherins fell off their brooms as Heero stole the Quaffle and scored twice more. Then he sent a bludger and Malfoy's head who shrieked and fell from his broom only to be saved by Duo who grabbed the boy by his shirt.
"Wouldn't want you to die now would we?" The pilot asked grinning. Malfoy looked down and saw he was fifty feet in the air.
"GET ME DOWN!!" He yelled. Heero scored once more. Game over, Heero wins.
"I'll play for your team Harry." Heero said smiling and tossed the red ball at the team captain who laughed his ass off and Malfoy's red face. The whole team joined in as Harry chanted;
"Slytherins givin in, Slytherins givin in." Heero heard this and smiled as he walked off the pitch.
'I am so damn good.'
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Gundam Wing. I only own the plot, and don't worry. Zechs and the others will come into play soon.