FOREWORD:
To reiterate, this chapter was written several years ago, so my writing skills are much better now than they were then. Please enjoy the story for what it is...
Begin Recap
Duo lead the way to the back door and tapped on the bricks.
The bricks opened up all magical-like, swerving and spinning around, eventually revealing Diagon Alley.
Duo and Serena stared in awe, "Ooooo...ahhhh...cool!"
Heero wasn't quite as amazed.
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The group walked into the crowded streets of Diagon Alley, looking at all the shops, magical creatures, and other things they had never seen before.
"Well, let's see now. We're supposed to buy some school supplies here. Heh heh, that's sounds weird..."school supplies"...hee hee hee..." Duo laughed to himself.
"What's the first thing on your list?" Heero asked, waking Duo up from his momentary lunacy.
Duo looked at his list and replied, "A wand. It's lists here some shops that sell em'."
"I say we try out this shop!" Serena said while pointing the closest building.
Heero formed a sweatdrop on the back of his head.
Duo's eye twitched before he could say, "Um, Serena, that's a broom shop..."
"So?"
Heero and Duo fell down (anime-style!).
Heero recovered quickly and asked "What are you going to use to BUY these things you need?"
Duo got up and replied, "Oh, um...I donno. I guess I forgot about paying for stuff!" He rubbed the back of his head and smiled goofily.
"This list thing also says where we can get some money...Gringott's Bank? That's a weird name!" Serena said.
"So what!" Duo retorted, "As long as it's got some money in it for me, I don't care if it calls itself Shinigami Bank! No wait...I DO care if it calls itself THAT, but I'm cool with anything else..."
Inside Gringott's Bank, Vegeta is presently arguing with one of the secretary goblins.
The goblin politely said, but still with some aggrivation in his voice, "I'm sorry sir. If you don't have your key you CANNOT take any money out of your vault."
"That's preposterous!" Vegeta shouted, "I'm the Prince of all Saiyans! I can do what I WANT! Now I'm ORDERING you, lowly peasant gnome, RETRIEVE MY MONEY!"
Ignoring the insult aimed at his heritage, the goblin replied "I can't do that. Now if you will please leave, there is a line of people who HAVE their keys waiting behind you."
"Very well, if you won't get my money, I'll take it myself!" Vegeta floated up a few feet and raised his hands, "FINAL FLASH!"
A great stream of light came forth from Vegeta's hands and destroyed almost everything, including the goblins and the vaults.
The other people in the bank who survived the blast began screaming and running around in a mass panic.
Vegeta smirked, "Well, let's see. Which vault shall be mine?" He floated by all the destroyed vaults and grabed handfuls of coins as he passed each one, "There! That ought to be enough." Vegeta then flew out of the bank.
At that moment, our other group of Anime People arrived at the bank.
Duo stopped in his footsteps and pointed to the smoking pile of rubble that was now Gringott's, "Wow, look at that! I wonder if the bank always looks like that."
"Maybe it's a security thing?" Serena offered.
"Let's just go get the money." Heero stated.
"Ok!" Duo said and ran off into the smoking ashes of the destroyed bank.
Now inside the bank, the group looked around at the destruction. They also wrinkled their noses at the stench of dead goblin.
"I don't think that this is how this bank always is." Heero said.
"How do YOU know?" Serena asked, "It's probably a magical bank."
"Most banks don't leave dead goblins laying around, even if it IS a magical bank."
"Heh, yeah, I suppose you're right..."
Duo shouted from a corner in what was left of the main lobby, "Well, looks like all the live ones've bailed outta here! I think I'm gonna go check out the vaults!" Duo had an evil look on his face as he practically skipped away to the free loot.
"May as well follow him," Serena said as she climbed over the rubble to the place she last saw Duo.
Heero just stood there waiting for them to return. There was no need for all three of them to go in, especially when he wasn't even going to need to buy any magical...things.
About half an hour passed before Duo and Serena returned. Serena had stuffed every available place in her clothes with coins. Duo had gone to the extreme and even had coins stuffed in his mouth.
"Ogh kay Eero! Et's ko!" Duo said through all the coins.
Heero hit Duo in the back of the head really hard. This caused Duo to spit up all the coins he had stored in his mouth, as well as a bit of blood.
"HEY! That was uncalled for!" Duo protested.
"Don't you think it would be a little suspicious when you try to tell shop owners what you want and coins start falling out of your mouth?" Heero asked.
"Well, I guess it would have been, but you didn't have to hit me so HARD!" Duo replied with a look of disapproval on his face.
"C'mon guys!" Serena shouted, "These coins are starting to pinch! Let's get our stuff!"
The two Gundam pilots sweatdropped, but started to head towards the nearest wand shop.
The sign above them read
"The Nearest Wand Shop"
Duo said nervously, "I don't think we should really go to this place. I mean, just look at it!"
The shop was falling apart, literally. The front door was hanging on only by it's bottom hinge, the windows were almost black with dust, the outer walls looked like they would crumble to nothing if you touched them at all.
Heero nodded his head in agreement.
"Aww, c'mon guys! It'll be fine!" Serena said as she pushed the two boys inside the store.
What the group found on the inside of the store was even worse than the outside.
The floor was covered in almost an inch of dust, the air was thick with a sick smelling incensce, and the only lighting in the place was from two small candles on the desk that was situated in the middle of the room. Behind the desk they could barely see rows upon rows of small, but long, black boxes.
"Can I help you?" Came a feeble-sounding female voice from the darkness.
Serena jumped, but the two Gundam boys narrowed their eyes and went into "Gundam-Pilot-Mode".
Heero was the first to reply, "We want to buy wands. Show yourself so we'll know who we're buying them from."
"Oh ho ho ho! Very well!" the feeble-voice replied, but it suddebly turned into a strong womanly voice as it said, "Prepare for trouble!"
A man's voice came from the shadows, "And make it double!"
The light suddenly flashed on and there were two figures, a man and a woman, standing in some practiced form. There was also some weird cat-like thing standing at their feet.
The two continuted their speech, alternating lines, "To infect the world with animation!"
"To spread our chant to every nation!"
"To pronounce the evil of Disney toons!"
"To make everyone an anime goon!"
"Bertha!"
"Joe!"
"Team Block-it blast in at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or perpare to fight!"
"Trash-Cat, that's right!"
Our group of anime heros stared dumbfoundedly at the trio of morons. Finally, Duo broke out into hysterical laughter,"TRASH-CAT? WHAT KINDA STUPID NAME IS THAT?"
Heero and Serena both burst into laughter with Duo.
"And Bertha? Exactly how OLD are you!" Serena gasped between giggles.
A look of shock crossed Bertha's face, then a look of anger as she yelled, "I'm not very old at all! My parents just liked old fashioned names!"
The group of anime characters left the "wand" store laughing like a bunch of hyenas. This caused several witches and wizards to turn their heads at the giggly group.
Heero, Duo, and Serena eventually sat down in front of a shop in order to catch their breaths.
"Whoo man!" Duo said when he camled down to random chuckles, "What were those guys trying to proove? That didn't make any sense. It was, like, at first they seemed scary and mysterious, and then they go into that weird speech thing!"
"Heh heh, yeah," Serena replied.
Duo sighed, "Well, I guess we better find a different wand shop. It's gettin' kinda late and we still have to buy the rest of this stuff on our lists!"
Heero stood up and looked around him. He noticed that the shop they were in front of had a name that matched one of the shops on Duo's list, "How about here?"
"Huh?" Duo turned around and looked at the shop.
"Olivander's, huh?" Serena said, "Sounds good to me. And it looks better than that last place too!"
When the Gundam Pilots and Sailor Scout walked up to the front desk, a little old man came scurrying towards them from the back of the shop.
"Hello, hello, hello! How are you all today? Can I interest you in a wand?"
"Uh yeah, that's kinda why we're in here." Duo said.
"Very good! Let me see now..." The old man dissappeared into the back of the shop once again and soon reappeared carrying a long, black box. He opened the box and took out a black wand spiraled with neon-green, "Here you go. Try this one," The old man handed the wand to Duo.
"Ummm...right then. Abracadabra!" Duo shouted as he swished the wand at the old man.
A bunch of flowers popped out of the end of the wand, and the old man jumped back a little, "Oh! Well, looks like this is your wand!" The old man smiled, took the wand from Duo's hand, and put it back in it's box, "It'll cost you fif-"
But Duo interrupted before he could finish, "Hey, we're kinda new here and we don't know which money is what or what any of it's worth. Here," Duo dumped a bunch of gold and silver coins onto the desk, "Could you just take what it costs outta these?"
The old man's eyes bulged a little at the sight of all the money laying on his desk. He felt a twinge of evilness in his heart for a moment and he was going to take more than the wand costed, but the twinge passed soon and he took the proper amount. He was also kind enough to explain the wizard money to the trio.
"Well then," the old man said after he was done explaining, "Who's next?"
"Me!" Serena shouted.
The old man smiled at her enthusiasm, "Good, good!" He scurried into the back of the shop for the second time and ruturned carrying a box similar to Duo's. The only difference was that this box was soft-pink, "There you are young lady, try and see if this one's right."
"Sure! Alakazam!" Serena shouted as she pointed the pink and blue wand straight into the air. A shower of rainbow colored sparks rained down on the group.
"Hey!" Duo shouted as he shielded his eyes.
"Well, this seems to be the correct wand for you ma'am," the old man said as he took the wand and put it back into it's box, "It'll cost the same as your friend's wand."
Serena took out the correct amount of money and handed it to old man.
"So, young sir," the old man pointed at Heero, "all we have left is you."
"I'm not here to buy anything. I don't need a wand." Heero stated plainly.
"Hmmm, curious..." The old man muttered to himself, "Very curious."
The old man turned from the group and placed his hands behind his back. He continued to mutter the word 'curious' along with other variations of the word. He did not leave, though, and this caused Duo to become annoyed.
"Hey man! Are you gonna stand there and mutter to yourself all day or are you gonna tells us what's so 'curious'?"
The old man spun around, and there was fire in his eyes as he said, "It's curious that..."
Tsuzuku...
Yatta! My second installment is done I hope you found it at least a little funny. I'm not good at humor fics, but practice makes perfect you know!
Duo"Yeah...right..."
Bashes Duo with a giant sledgehammer Hee hee Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this Part, and stay tuned for Part Three!