More Author Notes Yay!
Let me clarify something, Clow did not order anyone to do anything, save the elders of the Li clan, because if you want to get technical he is the clan head or at least can choose to be it. Why? His mum was part of the lead family and he is the eldest male, anywhere, but also in the clan. So yeah, he can order them around, a "Do as I ask or I'll make it so you have to do as I command," sort of thing.
The clans have already divided up China and already have their laws and government system down pat. Clow is asking them to document them for the westerners.
It's Chang clan not Chan, I miss put it, I write when I'm tired often, it's five in the morning now, and I haven't just woken up. Anyways, the Chang clan is one of the five magic clans I mentioned before. They used to be called the Oswarsi but since Chang is a common name and the clans marry people in, well the name changed.
Random Note One: The original name of the clan is what happens when Clow gets drunk on sake while using his Second Sight to watch anime/read manga in the future and then decides to mess with "History That Hasn't Happened Yet."
Random Note Two: Clow is a crackpot at times. His sense of 'play' is HUGE because if it wasn't he'd go insane--well more insane. He can see everything, and if he's not careful he can get dragged into people's experiences, in fact one of his students was dragged into people right before/just as they were getting killed. At one point Clow was just sifting though the timelines and he ran into the Holocaust. He is serene because he knows himself and is at peace, that's why he smiles, he has to work to be happy though.
Random Note Three: Because of this I'm making the Clow/Snape thing fluff. Basically Clow dragging Snape around, washing his hair, having fun/being irritating/acting like Dumbledore. And sometimes getting off his sugar/caffeine/whatever high to actually sit down and talk to him. I also had an interesting definitely non romantic thought about Eriol and Snape.
Random Note Four: Clow is a nut. You want to hug him, but he can also be disturbingly serious, and disturbingly vicious when defending people he cares about, though he usually does so with words or a round about manner like ruining their lives. And then he goes back to being a teddy bear. Clow can also be Crazy, I mentioned the Mind Storm Seeings? That's what happens when he gets pulled in by the vision instead of imitating it, it's also when he made most of the cards. This is going to be in an upcoming chapter but see it like this, Clow can take a step outside of time, in fact he can take several, but sometimes Something reaches into time, grabs him and rips him out until he can literally see everything at once and then forces him to focus in on something, he acts, is in a way, possessed when this happens. There are other things that happen to him physically when this happens, it depends on what he's seeing, though bleeding from the eyes and ears mouth and nose seems pretty common. He finds them to be distinctively unpleasant. This all the way outside bit? He calls it the Wild, or the Storm, things like that.
Random Note Five: Clow willingly tossed himself out into the Wild several times over the course of Seven Hundred years and pulled something back with him. The stuff of souls and free will. That's how he made the Guardian's, it took so long because he had to go out farther, and it took him a long time to recover after each trip, plus everything had to be shaped and fitted together. The extra stuff was fashioned into the cards to give them their unique properties, namely having wills of their own.
Spinal and Ruby haven't been around much because they are not close to Sakura. Further more Eriol has them running around putting up shields and occasionally carrying a simulacrum of Sakura. It's a bit of Voodoo type magic, but spells like that also exist in the East as they excel at enchanted items. Basically it's a carved wooden figure with a bit of hair wrapped around it, a bit of blood on the 'head,' and has been breathed on by the person. Saliva works as well, just not as long lasting as the blood. It also has Sakura's magic seal on it. Such things act as an extension of self. It's possible to use such things to make puppets and do magic though them; at least in the pure eastern method. Eriol thought that the Death Eaters had done some of their homework and so used a bit of Voodoo in making the thing as well. This was going to be covered in future chapters, but you guys want to know now, so know now!
They weren't around for Eriol to Clow thing because though Clow made all of them he spent more time with Yue and Kero, especially Yue (who was a needy liddle bugger.) If they were around there would be more "Pull" to the real world on Eriol. As it was, it would have gone better if Kero was there as well, but he had to be with Sakura.
Eriol...won't show up in later chapters unless this thing does a serious detour on me. But he WILL be there, usually talking to Clow, mostly in dreams.
Clow did not loose a lot of blood in writing. Go back and you'll see that it is stated that the blood stayed in his arm. The only time when it came out was when he dipped the quill.
As for the Toyomo vs Tomoyo thing, well I actually have KNOWN someone called Toyomo, so *shrugs* honest mistake and honestly I don't feel like going back to change it, but I don't think it should happen again.
Random Note Six: Tomoyo will be going to Hogwarts. She remains non magical and she is not a student. Who wants to guess how I'm going to pull this off?
Random Note Seven: I should be writing an essay or reading my text books. I'm not. I am going to be in deep shit.
Chapter Five: Herald to the King (chapters three and four were named this but it kept getting cut in half!)
A column of light, flashing strongly startled everyone in the room. The Aurors had their wands out in an instant and had already cast a number of containment spells around it. The light flicked and faded leaving two individuals there, standing on a glowing circular symbol.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you Fudge-san, but there is one or two more points left."
"State your names!"
The dark haired and robed figure continued smiling, seemingly to not be at all upset that his dramatic entrance had been well not ruined, but certainly not as cinematic as he had hopped. Well there went his speech; he really should have checked the lines closer to see if he would have had a chance to do so.
"I am Clow Reed, this is Yue," he gestured to the pristine white figure, who ruffled his wings. "And I have come to speak to your minister."
"Clow Reed died more than five hundred years ago."
"Six hundred and twenty nine years ago is when I...disappeared."
"My creator has taken us all the way from Japan to speak with you," Yue said, his voice soft, "Look at what we stand upon, is that not proof enough?"
And everyone did look down and saw Clow's magic circle.
"Let them out men! I'll hear what he has to say," Fudge commanded, and though he was an idiot, his will was done.
Clow bowed slightly in the eastern manner and Yue more deeply.
"Fudge-san, I have an heir who has indicated to me that studying in the west to learn your magic as I did would be highly interesting and worthy of veneration and so bring honor to her family."
Fudge blinked and tried to comprehend what was just said as Clow used highly flowery language and he wasn't too sure if it was insulting or not. "Eh? Oh. You have an heir and you want them to learn magic here."
"Yes Fudge-san. My heir is my apprentice, and my child. I intend to go to the Governors of Hogwarts rather than the head master to see about her admittance, but as it is an apprenticeship in Japan no transfers can take place without your permission."
"Congratulations on the kid then, Clow, I may call you Clow?"
"Certainly Fudge-san, it is an honor," he inclined his head to him, "May I call you Cornelius-san as well?"
"Certainly my dear boy," said the Minister irrelevantly as Clow while he didn't look it was older than he, and also much taller. "And you can leave off that -san thing too." He clapped Clow on the back. Why, he was standing next to a living thought-dead legend, he met Merlin himself! And if the man want a favor or two, why not? This would do wonders for his publicity. "But ah..."
"Would I mind stating my name under a Veritaserum test? I would do it in a heart beat. No I'm not reading your mind Cornelius, I'm merely Seeing a few moments into the future. Would you like a piece of Pocky?"
~*~*~*~
Fudge eventually decided that Clow Reed was disturbingly like Dumbledoree, only *more* so if at all possible. But Clow did not belittle him, nor fix him with angry glares, as well being agreeable to going under the old man's nose via the Governors. And Bless Merlin he didn't bring up You-Know-Who.
He found what Clow wanted to be agreeable. Why just think, he would be known as the minister who joined the East and the West! And Clow Reed's Heir, that would bring such prestige to England!
He also found the chocolate covered stick cookies to be very tasty. Clow had even left a box of strawberry and marbled ones as well as another box of chocolate. In return Fudge didn't think it would be right to appear ungrateful and so provided Clow with another letter this time to the Governors of Hogwarts to hasten the process of getting the child in.
Mnn...Chocolate.
~*~*~*~
Despite his worry at being separated from his mistress and the angst inherent at being around Clow Yue found that he was hard pressed NOT to be amused.
"You know you're going to be in all the papers, right?"
"Yes," Clow answered, never once looking up from the scroll he was writing in. "And before you say it, Sakura will be in Hogwarts by the time the paper comes out tomorrow. Now would you please deliver this to Dumbledore?" Clow sealed the scroll with his magic seal and handed it to Yue as well as the original letter and the letter from the Governors. "Enjoy watching them dance, won't you?"
A delicate snort, "I think they will be jumping more than the Governors and Fudge put together." He turned to take off.
"Oh and Yue?"
He turned and raised an eyebrow at him while his mind pleaded please say you want me to stay with you, one kiss...
"Look impressive," and he smiled at him.
Yue nodded and left, reflecting that smiles were more valuable than gold.
But what was more? The smile of the velvet night or the smile of the star?
~*~*~*~
Halloween was over, and there was a party in full swing. Not amongst the teachers, though some of them were perversely pleased and irritated at the same time. The students had beaten the record and had managed to rid themselves of the DADA teacher in under two months instead of a year. He has been a desk jockey Auror, timid, stammered, he had his spells down but he was squeamish about blood. Rumor had it that he had been transferred into the Aurors from some secretary gig else where in the Ministry as it was well known that most Aurors hated paper work with a passion.
The professor had been so universally disliked and not respected in the school that several Slytherines where overheard commenting that they'd "Rather take lessons from Pot-head and his Mudblood than from that idiot." So all the classes and all the houses banded together to get rid of him.
Poor Old Bloke never had a chance. Fred and George regularly sent him toilet seats at St. Mungo's though.
Of course the coalition had fallen apart right after that, but they made a good showing. Now they had free periods, and in Charms they were taught DADA spells as well as the more common ones. The teachers were pleased to be rid of him, and for the inter-house cooperation, but not at how they lost him. Eh, C'est la Vie.
It was breakfast and the jeering was kept to a minimum, even between the Slytherines and Gryffindor, there was congratulations and cheering in places. Snape was disgusted, Sprout was heart warmed, Sinestra contemplated what else the school and students could accomplish if they could be persuaded to work together again, McGonagall was proud, Hagrid was eating, Vector was calculating, Binns was oblivious, Dumbledore was smiling.
All was well in the world.
The Owls started to come in then, flying around the great hall like bits of fake snow and glitter in a snow globe.
And then Dumbledore stopped smiling, for he noticed something.
The birds were not delivering the papers, the parcels or the mail. Instead they were taking up roosts where ever they could, or flying in patterns along the sides of the Hall.
One by one and all at once the teachers and then the students took notice of this.
Dumbledore looked up to the large window where the last of the birds came in and in swept and angel.
He entered a controlled glide, arms half spread, hair streaming, his feathers pristine white. A few of the muggle born first years in the center table half reached up to touch the glorious plumage, not realizing that this was an abnormal occurrence.
He landed perfectly in a knight's kneel before the head table, one fist clasped to his chest.
"Greetings Dumbledore-sama, I am Yue, the Judge. My creator Clow Reed has bidden that I deliver this to you," he held out the scroll, head still bowed, "And has told me to inform you that he shall be coming here along with his Heir, who shall be attending this...institution, tomorrow. The School Governors have already signed the paper work."
He stood and walked, barefoot to the table and handed the school and letter over.
He half turned to leave and then paused.
"I would also advise you on my own to improve the scanning spells for incoming letters." He tossed the unopened returned to sender letter onto Dumbledore's plate. His voice barely betraying any inflection, disappointment here, disapproval there.
Snape made a note to try something like that as it almost seemed to make the Headmaster squirm.
He turned fully then and looked out onto the mass of students, no, the owls.
Yue, the moon, ruler of the night, of air and water. Of course the owls were part of his domain.
As one the bowed to the angel who then gracefully took off, in his wake the Owls started their proper duties once again.
There was dead silence, or rather it continues for a few moments until it was broken surprisingly by Dumbledore.
"Oh Hell."
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BWAHAHAHHAHA! IT IS DONE! FINALLY! I really love this chapter and character submissions are still open.
BTW did I miss any teachers?
I still need to write that paper.
Let me clarify something, Clow did not order anyone to do anything, save the elders of the Li clan, because if you want to get technical he is the clan head or at least can choose to be it. Why? His mum was part of the lead family and he is the eldest male, anywhere, but also in the clan. So yeah, he can order them around, a "Do as I ask or I'll make it so you have to do as I command," sort of thing.
The clans have already divided up China and already have their laws and government system down pat. Clow is asking them to document them for the westerners.
It's Chang clan not Chan, I miss put it, I write when I'm tired often, it's five in the morning now, and I haven't just woken up. Anyways, the Chang clan is one of the five magic clans I mentioned before. They used to be called the Oswarsi but since Chang is a common name and the clans marry people in, well the name changed.
Random Note One: The original name of the clan is what happens when Clow gets drunk on sake while using his Second Sight to watch anime/read manga in the future and then decides to mess with "History That Hasn't Happened Yet."
Random Note Two: Clow is a crackpot at times. His sense of 'play' is HUGE because if it wasn't he'd go insane--well more insane. He can see everything, and if he's not careful he can get dragged into people's experiences, in fact one of his students was dragged into people right before/just as they were getting killed. At one point Clow was just sifting though the timelines and he ran into the Holocaust. He is serene because he knows himself and is at peace, that's why he smiles, he has to work to be happy though.
Random Note Three: Because of this I'm making the Clow/Snape thing fluff. Basically Clow dragging Snape around, washing his hair, having fun/being irritating/acting like Dumbledore. And sometimes getting off his sugar/caffeine/whatever high to actually sit down and talk to him. I also had an interesting definitely non romantic thought about Eriol and Snape.
Random Note Four: Clow is a nut. You want to hug him, but he can also be disturbingly serious, and disturbingly vicious when defending people he cares about, though he usually does so with words or a round about manner like ruining their lives. And then he goes back to being a teddy bear. Clow can also be Crazy, I mentioned the Mind Storm Seeings? That's what happens when he gets pulled in by the vision instead of imitating it, it's also when he made most of the cards. This is going to be in an upcoming chapter but see it like this, Clow can take a step outside of time, in fact he can take several, but sometimes Something reaches into time, grabs him and rips him out until he can literally see everything at once and then forces him to focus in on something, he acts, is in a way, possessed when this happens. There are other things that happen to him physically when this happens, it depends on what he's seeing, though bleeding from the eyes and ears mouth and nose seems pretty common. He finds them to be distinctively unpleasant. This all the way outside bit? He calls it the Wild, or the Storm, things like that.
Random Note Five: Clow willingly tossed himself out into the Wild several times over the course of Seven Hundred years and pulled something back with him. The stuff of souls and free will. That's how he made the Guardian's, it took so long because he had to go out farther, and it took him a long time to recover after each trip, plus everything had to be shaped and fitted together. The extra stuff was fashioned into the cards to give them their unique properties, namely having wills of their own.
Spinal and Ruby haven't been around much because they are not close to Sakura. Further more Eriol has them running around putting up shields and occasionally carrying a simulacrum of Sakura. It's a bit of Voodoo type magic, but spells like that also exist in the East as they excel at enchanted items. Basically it's a carved wooden figure with a bit of hair wrapped around it, a bit of blood on the 'head,' and has been breathed on by the person. Saliva works as well, just not as long lasting as the blood. It also has Sakura's magic seal on it. Such things act as an extension of self. It's possible to use such things to make puppets and do magic though them; at least in the pure eastern method. Eriol thought that the Death Eaters had done some of their homework and so used a bit of Voodoo in making the thing as well. This was going to be covered in future chapters, but you guys want to know now, so know now!
They weren't around for Eriol to Clow thing because though Clow made all of them he spent more time with Yue and Kero, especially Yue (who was a needy liddle bugger.) If they were around there would be more "Pull" to the real world on Eriol. As it was, it would have gone better if Kero was there as well, but he had to be with Sakura.
Eriol...won't show up in later chapters unless this thing does a serious detour on me. But he WILL be there, usually talking to Clow, mostly in dreams.
Clow did not loose a lot of blood in writing. Go back and you'll see that it is stated that the blood stayed in his arm. The only time when it came out was when he dipped the quill.
As for the Toyomo vs Tomoyo thing, well I actually have KNOWN someone called Toyomo, so *shrugs* honest mistake and honestly I don't feel like going back to change it, but I don't think it should happen again.
Random Note Six: Tomoyo will be going to Hogwarts. She remains non magical and she is not a student. Who wants to guess how I'm going to pull this off?
Random Note Seven: I should be writing an essay or reading my text books. I'm not. I am going to be in deep shit.
Chapter Five: Herald to the King (chapters three and four were named this but it kept getting cut in half!)
A column of light, flashing strongly startled everyone in the room. The Aurors had their wands out in an instant and had already cast a number of containment spells around it. The light flicked and faded leaving two individuals there, standing on a glowing circular symbol.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you Fudge-san, but there is one or two more points left."
"State your names!"
The dark haired and robed figure continued smiling, seemingly to not be at all upset that his dramatic entrance had been well not ruined, but certainly not as cinematic as he had hopped. Well there went his speech; he really should have checked the lines closer to see if he would have had a chance to do so.
"I am Clow Reed, this is Yue," he gestured to the pristine white figure, who ruffled his wings. "And I have come to speak to your minister."
"Clow Reed died more than five hundred years ago."
"Six hundred and twenty nine years ago is when I...disappeared."
"My creator has taken us all the way from Japan to speak with you," Yue said, his voice soft, "Look at what we stand upon, is that not proof enough?"
And everyone did look down and saw Clow's magic circle.
"Let them out men! I'll hear what he has to say," Fudge commanded, and though he was an idiot, his will was done.
Clow bowed slightly in the eastern manner and Yue more deeply.
"Fudge-san, I have an heir who has indicated to me that studying in the west to learn your magic as I did would be highly interesting and worthy of veneration and so bring honor to her family."
Fudge blinked and tried to comprehend what was just said as Clow used highly flowery language and he wasn't too sure if it was insulting or not. "Eh? Oh. You have an heir and you want them to learn magic here."
"Yes Fudge-san. My heir is my apprentice, and my child. I intend to go to the Governors of Hogwarts rather than the head master to see about her admittance, but as it is an apprenticeship in Japan no transfers can take place without your permission."
"Congratulations on the kid then, Clow, I may call you Clow?"
"Certainly Fudge-san, it is an honor," he inclined his head to him, "May I call you Cornelius-san as well?"
"Certainly my dear boy," said the Minister irrelevantly as Clow while he didn't look it was older than he, and also much taller. "And you can leave off that -san thing too." He clapped Clow on the back. Why, he was standing next to a living thought-dead legend, he met Merlin himself! And if the man want a favor or two, why not? This would do wonders for his publicity. "But ah..."
"Would I mind stating my name under a Veritaserum test? I would do it in a heart beat. No I'm not reading your mind Cornelius, I'm merely Seeing a few moments into the future. Would you like a piece of Pocky?"
~*~*~*~
Fudge eventually decided that Clow Reed was disturbingly like Dumbledoree, only *more* so if at all possible. But Clow did not belittle him, nor fix him with angry glares, as well being agreeable to going under the old man's nose via the Governors. And Bless Merlin he didn't bring up You-Know-Who.
He found what Clow wanted to be agreeable. Why just think, he would be known as the minister who joined the East and the West! And Clow Reed's Heir, that would bring such prestige to England!
He also found the chocolate covered stick cookies to be very tasty. Clow had even left a box of strawberry and marbled ones as well as another box of chocolate. In return Fudge didn't think it would be right to appear ungrateful and so provided Clow with another letter this time to the Governors of Hogwarts to hasten the process of getting the child in.
Mnn...Chocolate.
~*~*~*~
Despite his worry at being separated from his mistress and the angst inherent at being around Clow Yue found that he was hard pressed NOT to be amused.
"You know you're going to be in all the papers, right?"
"Yes," Clow answered, never once looking up from the scroll he was writing in. "And before you say it, Sakura will be in Hogwarts by the time the paper comes out tomorrow. Now would you please deliver this to Dumbledore?" Clow sealed the scroll with his magic seal and handed it to Yue as well as the original letter and the letter from the Governors. "Enjoy watching them dance, won't you?"
A delicate snort, "I think they will be jumping more than the Governors and Fudge put together." He turned to take off.
"Oh and Yue?"
He turned and raised an eyebrow at him while his mind pleaded please say you want me to stay with you, one kiss...
"Look impressive," and he smiled at him.
Yue nodded and left, reflecting that smiles were more valuable than gold.
But what was more? The smile of the velvet night or the smile of the star?
~*~*~*~
Halloween was over, and there was a party in full swing. Not amongst the teachers, though some of them were perversely pleased and irritated at the same time. The students had beaten the record and had managed to rid themselves of the DADA teacher in under two months instead of a year. He has been a desk jockey Auror, timid, stammered, he had his spells down but he was squeamish about blood. Rumor had it that he had been transferred into the Aurors from some secretary gig else where in the Ministry as it was well known that most Aurors hated paper work with a passion.
The professor had been so universally disliked and not respected in the school that several Slytherines where overheard commenting that they'd "Rather take lessons from Pot-head and his Mudblood than from that idiot." So all the classes and all the houses banded together to get rid of him.
Poor Old Bloke never had a chance. Fred and George regularly sent him toilet seats at St. Mungo's though.
Of course the coalition had fallen apart right after that, but they made a good showing. Now they had free periods, and in Charms they were taught DADA spells as well as the more common ones. The teachers were pleased to be rid of him, and for the inter-house cooperation, but not at how they lost him. Eh, C'est la Vie.
It was breakfast and the jeering was kept to a minimum, even between the Slytherines and Gryffindor, there was congratulations and cheering in places. Snape was disgusted, Sprout was heart warmed, Sinestra contemplated what else the school and students could accomplish if they could be persuaded to work together again, McGonagall was proud, Hagrid was eating, Vector was calculating, Binns was oblivious, Dumbledore was smiling.
All was well in the world.
The Owls started to come in then, flying around the great hall like bits of fake snow and glitter in a snow globe.
And then Dumbledore stopped smiling, for he noticed something.
The birds were not delivering the papers, the parcels or the mail. Instead they were taking up roosts where ever they could, or flying in patterns along the sides of the Hall.
One by one and all at once the teachers and then the students took notice of this.
Dumbledore looked up to the large window where the last of the birds came in and in swept and angel.
He entered a controlled glide, arms half spread, hair streaming, his feathers pristine white. A few of the muggle born first years in the center table half reached up to touch the glorious plumage, not realizing that this was an abnormal occurrence.
He landed perfectly in a knight's kneel before the head table, one fist clasped to his chest.
"Greetings Dumbledore-sama, I am Yue, the Judge. My creator Clow Reed has bidden that I deliver this to you," he held out the scroll, head still bowed, "And has told me to inform you that he shall be coming here along with his Heir, who shall be attending this...institution, tomorrow. The School Governors have already signed the paper work."
He stood and walked, barefoot to the table and handed the school and letter over.
He half turned to leave and then paused.
"I would also advise you on my own to improve the scanning spells for incoming letters." He tossed the unopened returned to sender letter onto Dumbledore's plate. His voice barely betraying any inflection, disappointment here, disapproval there.
Snape made a note to try something like that as it almost seemed to make the Headmaster squirm.
He turned fully then and looked out onto the mass of students, no, the owls.
Yue, the moon, ruler of the night, of air and water. Of course the owls were part of his domain.
As one the bowed to the angel who then gracefully took off, in his wake the Owls started their proper duties once again.
There was dead silence, or rather it continues for a few moments until it was broken surprisingly by Dumbledore.
"Oh Hell."
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BWAHAHAHHAHA! IT IS DONE! FINALLY! I really love this chapter and character submissions are still open.
BTW did I miss any teachers?
I still need to write that paper.
