Chapter 1
The Shaman fight had ended, Ren, Jun, Horo-Horo, Pilika, Bokuto No Ryu, Chocolove, Lyserg and Iron Maiden Jeanne were all back in their own countries. Manta, Tamao, Yoh and Anna were the only left in Tokyo. Faust and Silva was nowhere to be seen. Everything was peaceful, and quiet. No Shaman Fight, No training, No Chinese Shaman trying to claim Amidamaru as his own, no school-which meant no homework, no pyromaniac trying to take over the world, no evil, no adventure. For the first time in months, Yoh Asakura was bored. Yoh stared glumly at the lake. Manta was currently at cram school. Lucky guy! At least he had something to do. Yoh had been staring at the lake for hours, and even he got bored. Of course, the alternative was going home and doing five hours of the 'electric chair', so Yoh had decided to stay outside and find something to do…
Yoh trudged glumly down the street in the direction of the graveyard. Amidamaru was somewhere in the city hanging out with Mosuke catching up on old times. Yoh put on his headphones and turned the volume up to max. Then Yoh turned the opposite direction towards the CD shop. Not noticing his guardian ghost calling him Yoh passed right through him before realizing that Amidamaru was there. "Yoh-dono!" The samurai floated towards the shaman.
"Yo Amidamaru. How's the city?" asked Yoh.
"Well, it isn't that great when you're a ghost." Yoh nodded in agreement. "Manta went back to the Inn with Mosuke."
"Great!" Said Yoh cheerfully. "Let's go meet up with Manta!" Amidamaru made a sound.
"What?"
"It's just been so boring without the shaman fight!" Amidamaru suddenly blurted out. Yoh smiled and nodded.
"I'm hungry…" said Yoh. Yoh shook his empty purse frowning. "Too bad we don't have any money…" Yoh put his orange headphones on his head and turned on his CD player. Then he and Amidamaru started walking to the train station. Until…
"Yoh-dono, don't you keep money in those things?" Amidamaru pointed at a leather wallet lying on the ground. Yoh picked it up and examined it. It was black and gold with a yellow star in the middle. Then Yoh heard a familiar voice behind him.
"I believe that is mine." Yoh spun around.
"HAO?!"
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Manta Oyamada pushed open the door of Funbari Inn. He had forgotten that cram school was cancelled, so he decided to find Yoh and something 'fun' to do. Manta assumed that Yoh would be at home, so that was where he went. Unfortunately for him, Yoh wasn't home so Manta had to wait for him to come back and at the same time, be Anna's personal slave.
"MANTA, GET THE PHONE!!!"
"Yes, Anna…" Manta got off of the sofa and picked up the phone.
"Good Morning this is Funbari Inn-" Manta began in a business voice.
"Manta this is Tao Ren."
"Ren? It's been awhile. How's everything?"
"Well, that's what I want to talk to you about. Has Chocolove sent any prank letters lately?" Asked Ren with a serious voice.
"No, why-WHAT THE HECK???" Manta stared at the windows. Letters were flying through them into the dining room. And he heard the screeching of owls as they each dropped several letters one by one.
"What?" Asked Ren calmly.
"THERE'S A FLOCK FRIGGIN' OWLS BOMBARDING ME WITH LETTERS!!!" Manta waited for a reply. Ren took a gulp of milk, and then said:
"Me? Don't you mean 'Us'? It seems I wasn't the only one… I didn't really look too carefully. It's all a bunch of crap, something about a hog-wart. Anyways, if you know who is sending these just tell me, because I'm not in the mood for being played as a fool. "
"What do you mean?" Asked Manta raising an eyebrow.
"MANTA, TAMAO, HELP ME CLEAN UP THIS MESS!!!" Anna shouted in the background.
"I mean, that maybe you should read the letter and call me back and tell me what you think." Said Ren more calmly. "Jun, Pyron, do something about those owls!" Ren hollered over the static. There was a loud crash, and the last thing Manta heard before Ren hung up was: "KISAMA!!!!!!!!!"
Manta hurried off to the room and his eyes widened when he saw the amount of letters in the room. There was a whole mountain of yellow-ish brown letters which was threatening to fall on top of him any moment. Anna kicked it with tremendous force causing the pile to fall right on top of… Manta.
"I guess that's what you get for ignoring the past 24 letters…" Sighed Tamao defeated.
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"So, Mr. Lyserg, you sent the letters, I presume?" The headmaster of Hogwarts asked the green haired British boy. Lyserg Diethyl nodded.
"More than half of them ignored the first 6, so I had to sent more…" Lyserg muttered while fingering his pendulum.
"That's perfectly alright!" Said Dumbledore cheerily. "Now, may I ask you a favor?"
"Certainly."
"Even after the letters, most of the shamans don't really believe these letters… Can you phone them instead, maybe help them get their supplies, and just introduce them to the wizarding world?" Asked Dumbledore. "You see, Hagrid is very busy now." Lyserg nodded again.
"I'll be off then." Lyserg waved and stepped out of the abandoned warehouse he met Dumbledore in. Then, he took out his cell phone and dialed Ren Tao's number. The phone rang a couple times, and then a dial tone sounded. The line was busy. Lyserg sighed and dialed Yoh's number. Also busy. Lyserg shrugged.
"Guess Yoh and Ren will have to wait for later, eh Morphine?" Lyserg said to the fairy floating next to him. "I'll try contacting Horohoro and ask Jeanne-sama and Marco to maybe call the others." Lyserg started dialing Horo-Horo's number, when words flashed on the screen:
NOT ENOUGH MONEY
"Craaaaaaap!"
Lyserg swore in his head. Oh well. There was only enough money on it
for a call within, and he didn't have any coins for a pay-phone. He
decided to call Jeanne. Lyserg punched in the number, and pleaded to
himself that the line wasn't busy.
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"I- I thought you were- Why aren't you dead???" Asked Yoh.
"Why aren't you dead? That's rude!" Said Hao in a fake sugary voice. Yoh looked up at him. Hao was smiling "If you mean why I am alive, then that's simple." Hao smile widened. "Of course, I'm not stupid enough to tell you. But that's not the reason I'm here." Yoh glared at his brother but kept quiet.
"I sense a great evil approaching." Yoh gave a hollow laugh.
"And you want us to help defeat your new rival," Yoh finished.
"Something like that. Of course, the alternative is the entire world coming to an end."
"What makes that better than your plans for world-domination?" Asked Yoh still glaring.
"Because… I am only going to rid the world of humans, the shamans get to live, but this new evil is most likely going to destroy the 'whole' world, so in reality, it's a better deal if you let me rule the world so we wouldn't be having this conversation." Yoh just stared up at him deep in thought.
"So who is this new evil, and how are we going to destroy him?" Asked Yoh skeptically.
"Well, first of all, the name is Lord Voldemort. He is a wizard." Said Hao.
"A wizard? Never heard of them."
"I'd be surprised if you have. Anyways the point is that we've all been invited to the Wizarding School called Hogwarts located in England." Hao handed Yoh his letter. "Here, read this." Hao threw Yoh a parchment envelope which Yoh caught in his hand. Yoh ripped it open and took out the letter inside.
Dear Yoh Asakura,
We have been informed of your excellent performance in the Shaman Fight and the defeat of Hao, and we know of your immense powers. Because of this, we are inviting you to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with other talented Shamans where you will be taught in the ways of wizards. You will be put in the 5th year, and term will start on September the 1st. The train to Hogwarts is located in King's Cross station platform 9 ¾ in London. You may bring as many others with Shamanic abilities along with you. Enclosed is a list of what you need to bring.
Signed, Minerva McGonagall.
"So, what do you think?" Asked Hao the second Yoh finished reading the letter. Yoh just laughed.
"Ha ha ha… Hogwarts… that's a funny name!" Said Yoh without absorbing any of the important information he was just told. Hao almost fell over. Then he glared at his brother.
"Look, do I have to read your mind?" That shut Yoh up. Hao too, raised an eyebrow. "This is serious!"
"Well," Yoh began scratching his head. "It's kinda odd, this letter… It sounds like some prank letter Chocolove would write."
"It is not a prank." Hao stated.
"How would you know?" Yoh asked in a childish tone.
"Yoh, Yoh, Yoh. Haven't you forgotten my powers? I can read minds. Chocolove is currently cooking some type of pizza… -And I've seen the school."
"Ya' did?" Asked Yoh dumbly.
"The Spirit of Fire could easily pin-point the exact location of the school."
"Oh." There was a long silence. Then Yoh smiled. "Alright, let's go! C'mon!" Said Yoh excitedly. Hao didn't move. Amidamaru floated there for awhile his mouth still hanging open. Then, he recovered and asked him quietly if Hao could be trusted. Yoh nodded. There was a long pause. Yoh extended his hand.
"So, are you coming?"
"Do I have a choice?"
"Look," said Yoh. "I'm sorry about what I did to you and the spirit of fire. If I could fight you again, I'd try to find another way, but as a shaman, I will fight if I need to, but as your brother, I care for you." Those words took impact, and for a moment Hao looked shocked, but like Amidamaru, he recovered and smiled at his other half. He nodded.
"Awright! Let's go, as I said before!" Shouted Yoh excitedly.
"Why your house? Everyone in it will probably want to kill me." Hao said reading Yoh's thoughts. Yoh had gotten used to his bro being able to read minds, so he just said:
"Don't worry, everything will work out!"
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Iron Maiden Jeanne slumped onto a chair, her left foot throbbing with pain.
"My Furiyoku'd better get higher for this!" Jeanne muttered wrenching a dagger from her aching foot. Wincing in pain, Jeanne reached for her phone and was about to call Marco to repair the Iron Maiden torturing device, when the phone rang. It was Lyserg Diethyl.
"Lyserg! How are you doing?" Jeanne said in an indifferent voice trying not to sound unusual. Unfortunately, Lyserg wasn't dumb.
"Jeanne-sama, your voice is shacking," He said with concern. "Are you okay?"
"Yes, yes I'm fine. The Iron Maiden broke down again, and instead of cutting my arm, the knife in it stabbed my foot." Said Jeanne casually. Lyserg opened his mouth to yell, but Jeanne added before he got the chance, "Anyways, look on the bright side, it probably raised my furiyoku higher than if I didn't get stabbed in the foot."
"Alright, if you say so." Said Lyserg. Jeanne smiled. Sometimes Yoh's philosophy of 'looking on the bright side, and changing the subject' does work. "Now, what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Oh, yes. As you know, we are all invited to Hogwarts?"
"Yes. I know. Please continue."
"And… well, I was wondering if you could help me call them all, because my phone kinda-"
"Say no more. Of course I will call them for you."
"Thanks Jeanne-sama…"
"Lyserg, the Shaman Fight is over, you don't have to call me that. Just call me Jeanne."
"Sure, Jeanne-sa" Lyserg blushed. "Um… err… Jeanne. And thanks."
"You're welcome, Lyserg." The phone clicked, and Jeanne hung up. Lyserg closed his cell phone and put it in his pocket. Swinging is bag over his shoulder, Lyserg headed over to Diagon Alley. Time to get some supplies. Lyserg looked on his map, and tapped the bricks with his wand. An instant later, the bricks gave way, moved and arranged themselves to make an archway leading to... Diagon Alley. Lyserg put his wand back into his bag and walked through. The bricks went back into place behind him. "This is it, Morphine." He said to his sprit companion, "Welcome to Diagon Alley."