Before Harry was able to speak his acceptance of the ethereal beings offer the faint sounds of crashing through the underbrush echoed from the depths of the forest and as they drew closer the sounds of angry muttering as well interspaced with frightened squeaks. With a confused look on his face Harry looked to the other worldly elf like creatures for some explanations but they did not seem to be forthcoming at all but stood with there blue hair flying behind them their delicate features screwed up in expressions of anger, disappointment, and irritation, what ever the thing in the trees was it would soon feel their displeasure.
The crashing became louder still and the word were soon distinguishable from the livid mutterings Harry had heard moments before it went like this "stupid shit headed mortal sons of lusty goat assed bitches….one thousand years wasted stupid mindless shit ruined it all bastard son of a…….." followed by more unintelligible sentences, needless to say what ever it was it was beyond mad.
During the entire tirade the beings that were not of earth grew increasingly more agitated and began hissing insults under their breath. Harry was confused the creatures he had but mere moments before considered beyond such things as was there stereotype were acting like common mortals, odd defiantly odd. During the time with increasingly louder yelling Luna Lovegood remained blissfully unaware in the warm embrace of sleep.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity to Harry the shadows of two figures appeared in the distance under the bows of the mighty trees, a much smaller figure dragging a taller by the ear all the while screaming insults a the other, as they grew closer Harry realized the figure being manhandled was… Neville Longbottom.
This was too bizarre to possibly believe here he was stranded in some obscure plane of reality with Loony Lovegood and Neville Longbottom of all people things could not get any stranger. Harry had gone through many crazy adventures that astounded him to no end, well he was a wizard after all nutty things were to be expected but really this was just a bit beyond what he could rationally take at least after preparing himself for the past few days for his yearly internment at the Dursley's. So he sat down and began to giggle, then chuckle and finally begin to cackle madly, his head thrown back and tears of mirth trickling from his eyes. This did what all the madness prior had not, wake Luna up.
After blinking her large protuberant blue eyes a few times she looked blearily around a few time and exclaimed "Oh hello Harry what are you doing here?" this just caused Harry to laugh harder, after gazing at him for a few seconds with and expressionless stare she calmly drifted into her trademark dreamy gaze and looked aimlessly around as Neville and the little creature came to the center of the clearing.
Looking too frightened to speak Neville cowered under the malignant stare of the little creature that upon closer inspection seemed to be some sort of house elf of the domineering kind, dressed in purple trousers and a yellow and green waistcoat he seemed to radiate anger, the ethereal being closest to the little elf with mighty glares of fury took on the little elf with all its imposing otherworldly glory but strangely lacking it's distant and powerful voice, and instead emited sounds in a squeaky high pitched tone not unlike a gaggle of exited and angry Dobby's.
The fight went something like this. "Tobly you stupid half witted fool prancing about like a human you are, one thousand years we is planning this and you is ruining it like that" one of the ethereal beings snapped whilst snapping its fingers under the offending elf's nose. Tobly retorted "don't blame this on me Nobly, it is the humans fault, I was following the plan to a tee until idiot hear decided to go for a brief jaunt through the trees! If any thing I prevented the plan from fucking up further," Harry and Luna starred wide eyed at the little elf, they had never even thought house elves had it in them to be so vulgar. Neville on the other hand tried to make himself shrink even more as Tobly bore down on him even more.
"It doesn't matter what you is do in to fix the plan you fucked up anyways Tobly. You was supposed to watch them make sure they didn't wander! What happened? One wandered and the entire thousand years of planning wasted! You is a fault Tobly you is!" Nobly all but screamed at the oddly dressed little elf, his beautify features twisted hideously in rage.
The ethereal being that had made the offer to Harry spoke up "Nobly, Tobly why must thou fight could not we discuss this discourse in a civil manner lest we bequeath further madness upon are young friend?" he look sharply at Harry who was now crying whether from sadness or mirth it was hard to tell.
The other two looked at the serene being and shouted "shut up," Nobly took over "shut your pompous archaic trap Bobly you is as much to fault as Tobly you was to wait to make your entrance until they was all awake but no you started to recited when there was only one listening!" the enraged being shouted to the other who was calmly standing taking the brunt of Nobly's anger with no visible sign of stress which was some feat.
"Everyone calm down lets take this like the rational ancient elves that we are, the situation is still salvageable although it will be lacking the pizzazz we had anticipated, all is not lost. We should all calm down and get this over with," with sharp glances at Bobly, Nobly, and Harry the un-named being, or elf as he had stated, waited for a response which came from the ever angry Nobly.
"Zobly you is as much to blame for this as anyone if you had done the summoning right none of this would have happened, if you was doing it right the humans would have woken on cue and all would have been well, and one thousand years would not have been wasted!" Nobly yelled at the impassive Zobly who raised a delicate hand to silence the ever infuriated Nobly.
"Nobly calm down. Yes everyone is at fault even me but that is no excuse to lose your head and start rambling like a mere house elf you have more class than that." Letting his words sink in for a few seconds Zobly began again before on of the others could refute his words and start the fight anew. "Bobly did well bringing the stray human back the situation was long lost by then, and we all know Tobly only has half his wits, so on with the show," Zobly turned to Harry, Luna and Neville who had been forgotten in haze of the argument were sitting stunned unsure of what to do, and questioning their sanity.
Looking at the wayward humans Zobly gently calmed them with gentle waves of benevolent magic that soothed their weary souls and allowed him to continue with their entire attention upon himself "I humbly apologize for the scene you had to witness we are prisoners here forced to be guardians of your world as penance, for a crime that we committed many years ago to the emperor of the five galaxies an unfortunate affair that was far overblown but that is in the past and of absolutely no significance to what is about to happen, needless to say tempers get a little out of control at times. Well any way you are here because you play an important role in the survival of you planet or at least to right the balance of light and dark, the two sides threaten to overcome one another and bitter war will follow the success of one against the other," Zobly smile gently at the shocked expressions on Harry and Neville's faces, and questioningly at the knowing one on Luna's. "Miss Lovegood do you understand this is not some government conspiracy or fancifully result of a fairy tale creature?" He looked at Luna with a slight condescending smirk, apparently her reputation was inter planer.
Smirking right back Luna replied "but of course Mr. Zobly a balance must be maintained at all times for all things, I assume you brought us here negate the influence of both Albus Dumbledore and Tom Riddle since each hopes to tip the balance to their favour and as you say will have most grievous results if said upset were to occur; however they are not the only players in the field the Ministry seeks to destroy creatures of the dark and various unaffiliated dark groups seek to destroy the creatures of the light. These are new occurrences of the past century although the events of there making go back to the founders of Hogwarts themselves and do nothing to preserve the balance if they intend to destroy it. Please accept my apology for interrupting your speech Mr. Zobly but my previous image would have been unbeneficial to the success of your plan, Loons aren't taken seriously."
Harry, Neville, and the elves starred at Luna with looks of shock and surprise as the normally batty and seemingly idiotic girl proved she was meant to be a Ravenclaw. After taking a few moment to regain their senses after being shocked at the display of sound mind Zobly continued his explanation "It is as Miss Lovegood said your job to prevent the success of one side against the other and vice versa. We will of course give you some gifts to aid in your quest as the council of the radiant universe decrees, a point of interest the council had decided to help your planet when they usually avoid such direct meddling you are a first feel special." After finishing his speech zobly walked off to one of the obelisks leaving the Harry and co to ponder his words.
Zobly after waving his hands extravagantly for at least five minuets the obelisk began to glow purple and a large chest appeared with a puff of sparkly smoke, he then levitated the ornately gilded trunk to the center of the clearing where the rest of the elves stood dejectedly, and Harry, Luna, and Neville waited with apprehension. With a flick of his fine boned wrist Zobly opened the trunk and rummaged inside until he procured three thick tomes one that seemed to be bound in living wood and vines that pulsed with life and vitality that was given to a speechless Neville, another that was bound in plain blue cloth to Luna, and the last that seemed to be bound in bleached bone and polished steel to Harry.
"In these books you will find knowledge that will aid you in your duty to preserve peace and the balance keep it secret for as long as you can your secrets can save you life and may be all that stands in the way of victory or failure, there is one last gift do with it what you will time is of the essence," Zobly finished, the other elves had moved to circle the trio on Zobly's cue the elves raised their hands the obelisks started to glow white as faint chanting was heard in the distance quickly rising in crescendo then all went black and Harry, Luna, Neville knew no more.
I apologize for the slight delay in getting this out, was sick all week stupid cold viruses, and I didn't feel like risking getting blood all over the computer from my stupid nose, any how thank you to all that reviewed next chapter should be pretty quick.