By: Lina Gabriev
Disclaimer: I don't own Slayers and I don't own Harry Potter or any of their characters. Don't sue.
Couples: L/G, A/Z, F/X and M/Z (Martina and Zangulus)
Time: After TRY
The 8 Who United Hogwarts Chapter 2 The Plan
"Wow, nice digs pops," Lina commented looking around. They were in a massive room with enough books to make even Zelgadis smile as he thought about a lead to a possible cure. Pictures of dead guys filled the rooms, and it wasn't until one of them winked at Lina that she took notice of them.
"What the hell?" Lina asked, blinking in confusion.
"Oh that's just Phineas Black," Moody gruffly replied, glaring his magical eye at the portrait in question.
"What do you mean JUST Phineas Black. I'll have you know..." Phineas began, glaring back at Moody, while Lina stared with a half surprised look on her face.
"Ahem," Dumbledore interrupted, catching everyone's attention. An imposing man, he was about five inches shorter then Gourry, a long white-silver beard protruding from face, a face which held his forgiving, friendly but pain-seeing blue eyes. "Well I'm glad you came," Dumbledore greeted warmly, "My name is Dumbledore."
"He's the Headmaster of the school. Hogwarts," Tonks explained to them, her once bubblegum pink hair now bleach blonde.
"Hogwarts?" Zel asked curiously.
"It's a school for witchcraft and wizardry," Tonks continued.
"Top school if I do say so myself. I was the best headmaster the school every had actually," Phineas said proudly.
"Phineas? Do shut up," Lupin said irritably.
"Maybe it'd be best if I explained," Dumbledore said, waving his wand in the air he produced several chairs offering them all a seat. They all sat down, Gourry sitting by Lina who was in the middle, Amelia and Zelgadis on the other side of her. Behind Gourry, Filia sat down, protesting loudly when a certain Mazoku sat down beside her.
"Oh no you don't XELLOSS!" Filia yelled.
"My my such a temper Filia. Such disgrace. To think that the other golden dragons may be looking down on you right now," Xelloss teased, shaking his head.
"Miss Filia, please calm down. Mister Dumbledore really needs our help. I don't think he wants his office ripped to pieces if you decide to transform here," Amelia said, hoping she was making some effect on the whining Filia.
"I don't think anyone who summons Lina here should expect to not have something blown up," Zelgadis commented.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Lina said.
Sylphiel looked around for Gourry to sit by him, saddened when she saw no available seat by Gourry-dear. Taking her seat by Xelloss, she stared longingly at Gourry, making Xelloss quiet, sick with the love radiating off of her. Zangulus shrugged taking a seat by Sylphiel.
"You don't really expect me to sit in these gaudy chairs do you. This is no way to treat a Queen!" Martina yelled angrily.
"FIRE--" Lina began, eyes flashing dangerously. Marting, not wanting to get Fireballed, compromised by sitting on Zangulus lap, much to his discomfort, arms folded as she began to pout.
"Can we get started?" Dumbledore asked, amused by their antics.
"Sure sure pops start explaining. I'm getting kind of hungry here," Lina said waving him on.
"It started sixteen years ago, when Voldemort, or Tom Riddle, attempted to kill Harry Potter, just a baby..." Dumbledore began. He continued with the fanciful story, Harry's parent's death, the sorcerer stone, the chamber of secrets, Harry's Godfather, and finally he came to Voldemort's resurrection. "Last year, a year after Voldemort's corporeal return, Harry came back for his fifth year at Hogwarts."
"Waitaminute, so you're saying, even after watching Cedric die, he still came back?" Lina asked incredulously. She hadn't interrupted at all until this point. Throughout the tale, not knowing Harry, she grew some respect for the boy who lost his mother and father.
"Yes that is correct Miss. Inverse. In fact, he was quite eager to come back. No one was allowed to contact him, in fear of the message being intercepted. He grew quite antsy, in fact," Dubledore said, remembering Harry's questioning eyes at the trial of his "misuse" of magic.
Opening his mouth to continue, Dumbledore was interrupted by some rather loud snoring.
"Jellyfish brains pay attention. He is FINALLY going to tell us why we are here. WAKE UP!" Lina yelled, summoning a Fireball to her hand.
"Miss Lina, please don't hurt Gourry-dear," Sylphiel said, running over to Gourry, shaking him frantically to wake him up before Lina got to him.
"Huh Wha?" Gourry said, yawning more loudly then was intended.
"These are the people you've chosen?" A man scoffed unbelievingly, flipping his shoulder-length dark greasy hair out of his face. "These children?"
"Who you callin' children, buddy? I'll have you know I'm the beautiful, powerful, sorcery genius, Lina Inverse.," Lina said, dramatically, waving her hand to indicate the others, she continued, "Oh and these are my lackeys."
"Lackeys," Zelgadis said, eye twitching. The comment affected Martina quite the same way.
"Anyway, I wouldn't call her a child if I were you. Just a friendly warning" Gourry commented, rubbing a burn spotthat hadn't been healed after that fireball incident earlier.
"Miss Lina? I think Mr. Dumbledore would like to finish his story right now," Amelia replied, trying to direct the attention away from Gourry, Martina, and the man that walked in. All three of which who had the attention of a very bad tempered sorceress who was itching to place in a not so appropriate place.
"Yeah yeah, we'll be good, right guys," Lina said, insanely, daring anyone to make fun of her or to yell at each other.
"This is Professor Snape. He teaches potions. And yes, they are the ones I have chosen," Dumbledore said, still smiling amusedly.
"Last year, when the sorting hat sang it song. It sang of how the four houses were divided, and how it should become united if we are to survive," Dumbledore said. He continued to talk about the ups and downs of Harry's fourth and fifth year at Hogwarts. "Voldmort came back, and although we came to help the children, we lost one of our own that day, Harry's Godfather, Sirius. The only thing gained was the Ministry's help, which doesn't balance out any loss on our part."
"Jeez, this is turning out to be one big drama production. First the kid loses his parents, sees someone die in front of him, and now he looses his godfather," Lina said, shaking her head sadly for the kid she never met.
"Which brings me to the part of my story which will explain my reasoning...," Dumbledore began, looking pointedly at Snape, "for bringing you all here."
"I was in my office, looking over some paperwork. Hearingmy bird bursting into flame." Dumbledore said, indicating the beautiful red phoenix.
"And the sorting hat practicing it's new song for next year," he continued, indicating the ragged, old brown hat on the shelf. "I heard it singing of the urgent need to unite the houses once more. It then went on to talk about eight heroes who would unite Hogwarts, and in doing so it would bring about Voldemort's fall. So you see, that is why I have called you all here. You will come into Hogwarts as 6th years, transferred from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons."
"What about their accents," Lupin inquired.
"I don't think that's the thing we need to be focusing on. They are sorcerers not wizards. We need to teach them to use wands," Dumbledore sighed.
"Wait a second, there's nine of us, not eight, and secondly Gourry, Zangulus and Martina can't even use magic!" Lina assessed.
"That problem can be addressed when you go through your training. We have two weeks to teach you everything that the 1st through 5th years know. We need to start as soon as possible." Lupin stated.
"Well who said I would accept anyway? What reason have you given me?" Lina asked.
"But Miss Lina!" Amelia, Filia and Sylphiel cried annoyingly in unison.
"That might just be the reason we called NINE of you here. You don't want to be here? Leave," Moody growled.
"Oh so you're not sure if you need Me in particular, are you? You don't know which one of us aren't needed," Lina acquired. She smirked seeing Moody's normal eye widen in surprise.
"ANYways, how much are you going to pay me?" Lina asked, as sounds of crashing filled the air, as people fell face first on the floor.
"Miss Lina, can you please be serious?" Filia whined.
"Oh and by the way Filia, don't think I've forgotten how you "forgot" to pay us for saving the world from Darkstar. A lot of interest has built up as well," Lina smiled evilly, as Filia paled considerably.
"Miss Inverse, even if we were to pay you, it would be no good since you wouldn't be able to use the money in your world," Dumbledore explained.
"Then I ask again, what reason will you give me?" Lina replied selfishly. She was already going to do it after hearing the boy's story, but this was too much fun to pass up.
"Magic. We will be teaching and guiding you through the year. All of you will learn at least one new spell. Hopefully much more. And as for you Mr. Greywords, I am hoping that you'll find something through our extensive library towards your cure," Dumbledore stated.
"Count me in," Lina smiled.
"I'm not about to pass up finding my cure," Zelgadis said, him too smiling, looking back at the books throughout Dumbledore's office. He didn't realize that this wasn't the library.
"I won't pass up helping Mister Zelgadis either," Amelia added, blushing at the chimera's shocked face.
"Gourry? What about you?" Lina asked him.
"Sure, why not?" Gourry said, smiling at Lina.
"Me too then," Sylphiel said.
"Oh and Filia, you're already coming. I want to make sure I'm going to get my money afterall," Lina told her.
"Heh heh right...Miss Lina," Filia chuckled, nervously.
"I don't suppose we can convince you not to come Xelloss," Lina sighed in defeat.
"My mistress' orders are to watch you all. I don't have much of a choice. Looks like we're going to have a lot of fun Filia-chan," Xelloss teased.
"AHH! Get away from me!" Filia screamed, taking out her mace, swinging it at Xelloss. Still smiling, he dematerialized, or thought he did but instead his face met mace-sama.
"Eh? Why couldn't I dematerialize!" Xelloss whined, Filia's mace showing a nice imprint on his face.
"You can't Apparate on school grounds," Dumbledore said. "We don't have an astral plane here."
"I'm not about to let Lina Inverse off the hook so easily, I'm coming too!" Martina announces.
"Do you HAVE to?" Lina whined.
"And of COURSE," Martina continued ignoring Lina, "Zangulus will be coming too." Opening his mouth to protest, Zangulus shut it in defeat, looking at his wife.
"Let's get started then?" Tonks exclaimed happily.
"This is Hagrid," Dumbledore said, as she walked into the room, "You will all follow him to Diagon Alley to retrieve the needed school supplies. You will use this Port Key to get them." Nodding to Mcgonagall, she ordered them to all onto the teapot.
After appearing in Diagon Alley, they all felt a bit disoriented, not including Xelloss who was having quite a nice dinner with the gang's sudden wave of nausea. Continuing on they entered Ollivanders to get a wand.
"Eh, don' worry about gettin' the other stuff for school. Dumbledore got that done for ya'll. Great man, he is," Hagrid said with admiration.
And I thought Gourry was tall. Jeez she thought as Lina stared at Hagrid's size hardly meeting his waist.
"Welcome to Ollivanders. I'm Mr. Ollivander," a small voice said. He appeared behind a shelf, which like the others, had narrow boxes stacked up to the ceiling.
"Well I'll leave them to you," Hagrid said, wisely, and as Dumbledore told him, he gave the money for the wands to Zelgadis rather then Lina, and left.
"Well who's first?" Ollivander said, shocked at the amount of customers. More shocked to their age. In the fact that they should have had wands long ago.
"I'll go," Lina said, stepping forward.
"All right, hmm, let me have a good look at you. Now are you left-handed or right-handed?" he asked.
"Right-handed," she told him.
"Alright then, here, try this one," he said opening a box.
Taking the wand she followed his instructions to wave it in the air. Nothing happened, leaving Lina disappointed.
"Hmm not that one then. How about this one?" he asked.
She tried it out again, and although she couldn't explain it herself, something happened. She felt like she was soaring, not like using a levitation spell or anything, but a different feeling. Since it seemed to satisfy the old man she gave it no question, for the moment anyway.
It went like this for sometime with the others. Zelgadis' turn finally came up. He was last since he was the one paying as Lina pointed out. She was still quite upset at the fact that he got the money, not her.
"Left-handed," Zelgadis said, not waiting for the man to ask him. Unlike the rest of them, Zelgadis received his wand on the first try. His wand was made of unicorn hair, eleven inches, made from oak, but still flexible.
By the end they all held wands in their hand that had "chosen" them. Lina's was eight inches, phoenix feather, mixed with elven hair, flexible. Amelia's wand was ten inches, made of unicorn hair. Martina's was a combination of holly and unicorn hair, nine inches ebony. Zangulus' was made of the same as Martina's, eleven inches, and oak. Gourry's a mix of elven hair and pheonix feather, was thirteen inches. Filia's was made of dragon's heartstrings, nine inches, from a birch tree. Sylphiel's was made of phoenix and holly, nine inches.
"Ugh, Are you sure I have the right one?" Xelloss whined. His made from dragon's heartstrings, a dark ebony color, eleven inches. Cheering up he said," Hey FILIA-SAN if it's Dragon Heartstrings, then they probably had to kill one." Dancing around he started to annoy her until she hit him with her mace.
"The three phoenix feathers are going to cost seven gold galleons each. The four unicorn hair will cost five galleons each. And the two dragon heartstrings will cost six galleons each. All together that'll be fifty three galleons." Ollivander replied.
"You don't really kill dragons do you?" Filia asked, glaring at the man. She was dragged out of the store, as far away from Xelloss, so as not to make her temper any higher then it already was.
Paying the man, Zelgadis left with the others meeting Hagrid outside. "Went a'right then? By the way, did any of ye want a pet?"
"What kind?" Amelia asked curiously, not knowing what this large man counted as a "pet".
"Well I don' suppose Dumbledore would appreciate me giving you a dragon," Hagrid said, noting Filia's indignant huff about 'dragons not being pets'. "So you can have an owl, cat, toad, or a rat.
Entering the shop, there was a large commotion filled with squeal of delight at how cute everything was.
"I just love this cat! It's so cute!" Amelia said delighted. It was white, spotted with a couple tan spots. It looked up at her with happiness, and a little bit of fear, with it's aquamarine eyes. "Mister Hagrid could I PLEASE have this one!"
"Blimey, course you can, wouln't have brought you 'ere otherwise now would I?" Hagrid said laughing.
Filia spotted a dark purple owl with a yellow diamond on his forehead. Hagrid of course, said yes to her as well.
"Why Filia-dear," Xelloss said, "I do believe this matched you better!" Xelloss pointed out an ugly, slimy toad, much to Filia's disgust.
"WHY YOU!" Filia screamed at him.
"I'll take this," Xelloss said, pointing at the toad.
Sylphiel spotted a blondish-brown cat, with blue eyes that reminded her of Gourry. Picking it out, she as well as the rest of them, who had chosen, went to the salesclerk to buy them.
The rest had declined to a pet. Gourry saying Lina would probably kill hers and Zel saying it would just get in the way. Lina just grumbled back after hitting Gourry, muttering something about a jellyfish for brains would probably forget to feed his pet.
Finding the Port Key back, which happened to be a discarded old hat, they made it back home, and slept.
"Miss Inverse?" Professor McGonagall asked, trying to wake the sleeping girl up.
They had all slept in the Griffindor common room, thanks to Professor McGonagall, who they were able to meet last night. Unfortunately, they were all to tired to care.
"Just start cooking something. She will wake up if she smells it. It'll be a lot safer for you if you do," Zelgadis told her with a wry smile, seemingly startling her.
Bringing the house elves in, who were happy to start working again, they brought in mountains upon mountains of plates filled with food. Within seconds, Lina and Gourry were both up, followed by the rest of them.
"Gah! Why do I have to see you in the very beginning of the morning!" Filia whined facing Xelloss.
"Well hello Filia-chan," Xelloss greeted.
"Shut up! Any of you interrupt my meal again and you'll be tasting Dragon Slave, Lina style," Lina said, daring them to talk.
"Today will be the start of you training. We're lucky to the fact that you all know magic, well at least most of you. Otherwise, squeezing 5 years into thirteen days may have seemed impossible." McGonagall told them after Lina and the others were finished.
"So why are you doing it if it seems impossible?" Amelia asked.
"Dumbledore believes in you." She stated quite plainly.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Lina yelled. She screamed with delight when a phoenix left her wand and then disappeared in minutes.
"Very good Miss Inverse. I do believe that stayed the longest," Lupin said, praising her.
"Victory," Lina said, holding up her famous victory sign.
"Gourry now you try," Lupin said.
"Uh, EXPECTO PATRODIUM?" Gourry yelled, and like Lina's, white smoke left his wand and took form of a jellyfish and too disappeared.
"Well at least you almost pronounced it right," Lupin said sighing.
"You really are a Jellyfish brain," Lina laughed amusedly.
"Mr. Greywords, you must think positive thoughts when you use that spell," Lupin encouraged.
Snorting, Lina shook her head. "That ain't happening."
"Now, I would like you all to start on you Transfiguration spells. You are now to turn the animal in front of you into a cup," McGonagall said, directing the "class" of nine, to wave their wands and repeat 'Ferefurto'.
"Ferefurto,' Amelia repeated, turning her cat into a cup successfully.
Giggling into madness, Xelloss repeated, "FEREFURTO!" Instead of directing the wand to his toad, however, he directed it to Filia. Leaving Filia a nice goldish color, he was still giggling all the way to the Dumbledore's office.
"Mr. Gabriev, Miss Inverse, please take Filia to the infirmary please," McGonagall said, in a no-nonsense tone.
"NOW I want no insubordination in my classroom," Snape said daring them to be disobedient.
"This is a the potion you are to do today," Snape said, the directions appearing on the blackboard, "you have forty minutes.
"This is right up your alley Zelgadis! Unfortunately it's not up mine," Lina said sadly. Potions were usually so tedious. You had to be patient with them. And her being Lina Inverse...
Within thirty minutes, Zelgadis was finished. Snape looked over it, finding nothing wrong he left, neither praising it nor condemning it.
After the forty minutes was up, Lina's was found acceptable, as well as Gourry's, with Lina's and Sylphiel's help. Snape would have noticed if his glare had not been focused on another two of his "students". Amelia's, Martina's, Zangulus', and Sylphel's potions, too, were found acceptable to Snape.
"I don't know what happened," Filia wailed after her potion completely boiled over, a darkbrown colorbubbling a putrid smell.She had not noticed Xelloss who had been putting all kinds of stuff in her cauldron when she wasn't looking. His, however had turned out perfectly. Sanpe made no comment but to say 'Evanesco'. With that, all her hard work vanished.
"Now, I feel that you are all ready. Or at least as ready as we have time to make you so. If needed remedial courses are permitted," Dumbledore greeted as they took their seats in his office. "Snape do you have the potion?" Snape brought in vials filled with a sort of purple vial, which reminded Filia of her tormentor the past few days all to well.
"All right drink this, and you will become sixteen again. It will wear off after this year. You will look as you did when you were sixteen," Dumbledore said fixing Zelgadis with a look.
"Please do not go into this head on. Think about it first. When you drink this, think of it as signing a contract that you are in this. As much as I would love your help, if you feel the need to back out, I'll understand," Dumbledore continued. Not hearing anyone who wanted to back out, the vials were passed around.
"Bottoms up," Lina said, drinking hers. She noticed she did not feel much difference, just a slight dizzyness,
She finally looked at her companions and saw how much they changed. She didn't really expect much of a change for herself or Amelia, but that was only because they all knew each other at this age. Gourry, on the other hand was slightly less tall, but still the same for the most part. However...
"Mister Zelgadis?" Amelia said, surprised. Suddenly she could see why it must have been so hard for him when he got cursed with a stone boy. High cheekbones, with a jet-black hair, the only reason she knew it was him, was the fact that his eyes were still the same sad, aqua marine eyes they had always been.
"Wow, he actually doesn't look like a freak anymore," Martina said, impressed, completely forgetting that she used to have a crush on that "freak".
"Martina, shut up," Amelia said, cruelly. That above all else surprised everyone. At first, Martina had thought it was Lina who said it but...
"Anyway, I'd rather you left and came on the train with everyone else, so as not to arouse to much suspicion." Dumbledore interrupted. An uneasy silence fell as they all trotted up to their room to sleep,with some feeling guilty, or bad thoughts towards others. It was not a very pleasant night.
The next morning they were all in a rush. Most not speaking to each other yet, the uneasiness remained in the air. When they were finally ready and had retrieved the necessary items from Dumbledore, they used the port key to get to the station. Dumbledore found it necessary to let them be on the train with everyone else, to avoid suspicion.
"ALL ABOARD!" the conductor yelled.
Finally here. Here at the place that would take them to Hogwarts to start a new journey.
Lina and Gourry looked at each other and nodded, confirming to each other that they were doing the right thing. They leaped onto the train, the others following them, and sat down in the sixth year's cabin. And as the train took off, each wondered what awaited them this time?
Next Chapter: The OTHER Reunion
Author's Notes:
I hope you all liked this chapter. Oh and for hard core Harry Potter fans, please correct me when I don't get the accents right. As far as I know though, Lupin, Snape, Moody, Tonks, and Dumbledore don't have a British accent. All I know is it was hard to incorporate everyone into saying something in this chapter.
Oh and in case this chapter seems sort of rushed, did any of you want a more descriptive part on the training and show how each and everyone of them got their wands? I just thought it may become quite boring if I did do all the explaining on how each got their wands. Since their was nine of them I saw it as boring. But please put it in your review if it would sound better with more descriptions, and I'll announce in the next chapter that I modified this one. I also didn't deem it necessary to go into the Harry Potter books into great detail. If you haven't read them, you will seriously be crippled reading this story. To understand everything, I mean.
Setsuna Fan Girl:I'm glad you stuck around for this chapter. As I said, I hope to update this more regularly. At least every one to three weeks. I know that is a long time to wait, but school's really wearing me down.
Darling Chii: It's inevitable. Xelloss and Filia in the same school? What could go right? I want to have as much fun with those two as I can. I hope you like the scenes in this chapter.
Kara: I love Harry Potter and Slayers so why not combine the two? With the slayers on the case, things are bound to get wacky and unpredictable. It's actually kind of a relief to do a crossover with the two since Harry is probably still a little moody. His godfather died, who wouldn't be?
Leesy Metallium: You know being a hard core L/G fan makes it funny how much everyone wants X/F in this story. Especially Xelloss. Oh an truthfully I haven't encountered a Harry Potter/Slayers crossover either. I have read many Slayers stories where Lina is Harry Potter or Gourry, etc. So it ought to make writing this even more fun eh?