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A/N: I forgot to put something in last chapter which I'll change when I eventually go back and do revisions on the whole story. Eliz was also under an illusion charm. It's not something too important to the story, but it would confuse some people in this chapter so I thought I would point that out. Anywho, on with the story!
"Phoenixus"
'Mind speech'
"Atlantian"
Chapter 2: Of Headmasters and Surprises
"Albus," Hermione called as she walked into his office.
"Hello Ms. Granger," Albus called as he came down from his personal study, "What brings you to my office today?"
"I thought I would update you on our efforts to convince Mr. Potter to come in," she told him somewhat exhausted. Both she and Josh had tried getting Harry to come in before his wedding but that was one stubborn man. His fiancé just sat back and chuckled at their attempts, she seemed to know how hard it was to convince him of anything.
"Ah, I hope it is good news," he replied with a twinkle in his eyes as he sat at his desk and motioned for her to take a seat.
"We've gotten him to agree to come in after his wedding later today," she told her mentor and boss, "He's getting married in front of a Magistrate so it shouldn't be too late in the day before we get here. Their appointment is at 11 a.m. today in London so you should expect us by 1 p.m. at the latest."
"Splendid, what do you know about the person he is marrying," Albus asked.
"We know that she is a witch, and she says that she put a block on Harry's power until after the wedding so they could go somewhere private to train. She seems like a very sweet woman, and I don't doubt that she cares very deeply for Harry, it only took having lunch with them once to see that. Although Josh and I have been over to Harry's flat more than once and I still have no reason to doubt it, I've only seen more evidence to support it," she explained, "Her name is Eliz, although I've never heard a last name, and she's 24. That's about all I know, most of the time we're around them Josh and I have been trying to convince Harry to come here before today."
"I see, and what reasons did he give for not wanting to come here before today," Albus asked.
"Mostly it was just that he wanted to get through his wedding before he started anything new. He seemed to think that after he came here he wouldn't have all that much free time."
"I can understand his reasoning then Ms. Granger, if you remember from your own education these things definitely do take a good amount of time. The fastest someone has even gotten through the seven years worth of potions was in seven months of classes every day and working in his spare time," Albus told her with a twinkle in his eyes. "Prior to that it was a stretch to think any of the areas of magic could be learned in under a year."
"Who managed that," Hermione asked eagerly. She may be in war-time, but that didn't mean her thirst for all knowledge diminished.
"His name was Harold Samiz. He disappeared practically of the face of the planet after he finished up his study. Nobody has seen or heard from him since," Albus answered his eager guest, "Without his help potions like Wolfsbane and Polyjuice would never have been re-discovered, and without waiting around for thanks he and his wife disappeared."
"How did he contribute to that," she asked. The conversation about Harry was completely forgotten to her, even though she was currently talking about the same one, she just didn't know that.
"The books that the potions were found in were in an ancient language that nobody has been able to speak let alone read or write in, in nearly 6,000 years. He could and he did so without thinking about it. Using the few words we were able to translate we were able to translate the two books he had previously sold to Flourish and Blotts which is where we found the potions."
"What language was it," she asked. She was wracking her brain trying to remember a language that died out that long ago but none came to mind.
"Atlantian, from the great kingdom of Atlantis, which as I'm sure you know sank beneath the ocean nearly 6 millennia ago," he answered her while enjoying the site of an excited student once again. It was the greatest reason that he never wanted to leave Hogwarts, because the looks on the students faces when they grasped an idea was something that always made him chuckle. "Ms. Granger, do you have your defense medallion?"
"Of course sir," she answered looking confused at the change in topic.
"When you are leaving to bring Mr. Potter here please let me know," he asked.
"Of course Albus," she responded before bidding him goodbye and leaving.
(Break)
Harry and Eliz finished signing the documentation the very next Thursday that officially made them husband and wife, which made both of them quite happy. Josh and Hermione came through for them and were witnesses to the union, signing each document they had to, and congratulating the newlyweds on their marriage.
"Harry," Hermione began tentatively.
"Yes Hermione," he asked politely even though he knew what she was going to ask. It didn't take a genius to figure out she was going to bring up Hogwarts now.
"Would it be possible for us to go to Hogwarts now," she asked without much confidence. She knew that if it was her getting married she'd want to spend the day celebrating and at least one day having a honeymoon.
"Do we have to," Harry whined. Even though he knew that he had to go there he did want to at least go out to dinner to celebrate the marriage.
"Harry," Eliz began, "I know what you're thinking, and I want to celebrate also, but don't you think we should go talk to the Headmaster now?"
"I suppose, but after that we're going to have a day to ourselves to celebrate and have some semblance of a honeymoon," he told her. With that they began to get ready to leave as Hermione ducked around a corner quick to use the medallion. Tapping it twice with her wand she spoke the name of the person she wished to talk to 'Albus' which caused his disembodied head to float above the medallion like a hologram.
"Ah, Hermione, are you bringing him to Hogwarts now," Albus asked.
"Yes Albus, we'll be leaving shortly. I just wanted to let you know that Harry and Eliz will want at least a few days to themselves to celebrate their wedding. He almost didn't come with us, but Eliz convinced him. Although she gave me a look that said if we didn't give them the time to celebrate I would be in a world of trouble," Hermione explained.
"That shouldn't be a problem," Albus answered, "I don't think a few days extra will hurt before Mr. Potter begins his magical education."
"We'll see you in a bit Albus," she said before repeating the action of tapping the medallion, only this time to deactivate it before going back over to the group of people letting them know she was ready.
"I suppose, let's get this over with," Harry said in a mock-pout which caused Eliz to giggle at his antics.
"Come on honey, we can celebrate later, I'll make sure you don't mind the wait," she told him before they started their short walk towards Josh's house. He didn't live too far from the Magistrate's office so they had decided to all meet up there before the wedding and walk.
"How are we getting to Hogwarts," Harry asked as they entered Josh's house.
"We'll use the floo network, normally you can't floo into Hogwarts but as long as you're with someone keyed into the internal network then there isn't a problem," Hermione answered.
"Wouldn't it be easier to just use a portkey," Harry asked.
"It would but I forgot to get one," she answered with a blush.
"Quit teasing," Josh admonished lightly as he hugged Hermione.
"Don't worry about it," Harry assured her, "Well, let's get going. I've used this once before so I at least know how it works, but you'll have to tell me what to call out."
"After you toss the powder just call out 'Headmaster's Office, Hogwarts' and it will get you there. As long as I go first you'll be able to get there fine as it will let the wards know that someone keyed to the wards is accessing the floo network," she explained to Harry and Eliz.
"Alright then, what're we waiting around for," Eliz asked with a smile. She couldn't wait to see the reaction that she and Harry got from everyone when they took down their illusion charms. It was the biggest reason she didn't want to wait another day, she was sick of renewing the charms and wanted to go around as herself. Both couples then took their trip through the network landing in Albus' office without any difficulties, thankfully, and took a seat across from the venerable wizard. Harry and Eliz could tell that Fawkes knew who they were, but it seemed the ancient bird also wanted to see one pulled over on the eccentric wizard.
"Welcome to Hogwarts Mr. and Mrs. Potter," Albus began, "I assume that you have been brought up to date about what is going on with your magic Mr. Potter?"
"Yep, and I gotta say that it sure as hell surprised me that ya'll didn't at least come to check on me," Harry answered with a grin.
"What do you mean," Josh asked.
"Think about it Josh," Harry answered, "If just any student was in this position they would have just sent a letter to them letting them know of what happened once they figured out that the said student was still alive, but with me they mobilized and wanted to bring me here as soon as possible."
"Quite perceptive Mr. Potter," Albus praised him, "We do need to discuss your future education while we are here though."
"First I want to know the state of the Wizarding world. I'm sure Eliz could do an ample job of teaching me if she was so inclined, but if I were to agree to this then I want to know what I'm being pulled into. Is the Wizarding world at peace or are they at war? What's the social climate right now," Harry asked.
"Again, smart questions to ask," Albus responded while not showing how nervous he was getting. He didn't want to lose the only weapon they had against Voldemort. "Currently the Wizarding world is at war with a lunatic and his followers. They are set to kill any they do not feel has 'pure' blood, meaning anyone with muggle (non-magical people) in their family whether they are muggle-born or half-blood."
"What are you doing to combat him," Eliz asked.
"I have a few spies amongst his ranks and people who are willing to fight him and everything he stands for," Albus answered.
"Would we be expected to do any fighting," Harry asked.
"That is technically up to you, although your help would be appreciated," Albus answered avoiding the issue of Harry being the only one who could end the war.
"Why was it so important to bring me in to your office instead of just sending me a letter explaining things," Harry asked.
"Alas, that is a question for another time," Albus answered trying to skirt the issue, "After you have control of your magical abilities we can discuss that more in-depth."
"Fine, I'll let that go for now," Harry replied grudgingly.
"Now, we need to talk about your education. It is very dangerous for you to go without proper education because the magical backlash could hurt yourself or anyone who is around you at the time," Albus explained.
"Why can't Eliz just train me," Harry asked.
"What qualifications in teaching does she have," Albus asked as a means to shoot a hole in that theory. Harry and Eliz shared a look and dropped their illusion charms the moment Albus looked back at them.
"Bloody hell!"
"What in the name of Merlin?"
"Merlin's beard!"
"Oh my…"
"Could it be…"
"Do you remember him Dylis?"
"Oh yes Elfrida…"
"Think they're a bit shocked," Harry asked Eliz as they listened to all the conversations and exclamations going through the office.
"I would say that," Eliz commented as she sat back watching everything that was going on. The funniest of all was the expression of Albus, his mouth was opening and closing like that of a fish and the lemon drop he had just put in was hanging from his long beard. Both Harry and Eliz burst out in laughter at the site of this and began laughing even more hard when they saw Josh and Hermione standing there looking at them as if he had just claimed to be the messiah. Although, I guess these people do consider me something like that from what I've heard, Harry mused.
"I don't believe it," Albus finally articulated.
"Good to see you again Albus, although for us it's only been about two weeks," Eliz commented.
"28 years have gone by," he commented in utter disbelief.
"Well, I had to get back home at some point didn't I? I never told you 'where' I was from, and the where was even suspect because it was more of a question of 'when'," Harry said enjoying the flabbergasted look on Albus' face.
"Albus, how do you know them," Hermione asked confused. If Albus knew them previously then why did she have to go and fetch him? Why did he let the Wizarding world think that Harry Potter was dead?
"This, Hermione, was the man I was telling you about earlier today. He went by the name of Harold Samiz back in 1974 and 1975 before he disappeared without a trace after finishing up his potions tutelage," Albus told her which caused Hermione to faint. Luckily Josh was there to catch her and place her on a sofa in the office.
"Harry, what's going on," he asked even more confused.
"We'll explain, although I think we should wake up your girlfriend because I do not doubt that she will have questions and want to know the story if we tell you the story before she is conscious to hear it," Harry said with a chuckle before casting a wandless reviving spell on her making Albus nearly choke on the Lemon drop he had just popped in his mouth. Hermione awoke on the couch and made her way back to her chair like a zombie as she was still somewhat in shock. Eliz decided she might as well help out, so she cast a calming charm on her wandlessly, that did make Albus choke on the Lemon drop he was sucking on. Harry burst out laughing so Eliz cast a charm to remove the blockage while Harry was trying to calm himself.
"Now that everyone is with us," Eliz began.
"We'll explain what happened," Harry finished before diving into his tail. "Alright, everyone here knows that I suppressed my magic at the age of 8, but what they don't know is what that caused. From what I was told I did such a good job, or rather Icharus did for me, that none of my magic was able to leak out. If you look at it one way, it's like a vault full of Galleons, if you don't open that vault it will keep filling more and more and the Goblins will have to continually expand the size of your vault to accommodate the amount of gold you have. Over the course of 12 years my magic was growing exponentially with no release and my reserves had to continually expand to accommodate the amount of magic that I had inside of me. With the blocks that I had placed on me by Icharus I was for all intents and purposes a muggle until the blocks were removed, but when they did the magic was rolling off of me as it could now act as it was supposed to."
"Wait," Hermione interrupted, "Who's Icharus?"
"He's the God of Muggles from what Timeus told me. Every now and then he comes to Earth in an attempt to make believers out of the world's population. He's responsible for every religion on earth, and the last time he came to Earth he impersonated Jesus Christ hoping to sway more," Harry explained.
"Who's Timeus," Josh asked.
"I'll get to that in a minute as he's rather important in this whole story," Harry responded, "Now, up until a week ago I had absolutely no clue about any of this, and I was more or less content that way. The day Josh told me about my promotion all of the people from the factory took me out to celebrate as I helped get rid of my Uncle from the factory and I got a promotion. After playing designated driver for nearly everyone I was driving home when my Uncle, completely smashed, drove down the wrong side of the highway and ran into me. Fortunately for him he died on impact, unfortunately I had quite a few injuries from what I heard, and they had to do surgery to keep me alive. Shortly after they had me more or less stable enough to live they put me in the Intensive Care Unit and I would guess that is when my magic decided the blocks were no longer needed. Not only did it completely heal me, but it healed my sight as well so I no longer needed my glasses.
"After waking up and telling the doctor my name and all that I asked when I could leave, he told me I would have to stay until at least Tuesday which I didn't like, so I waited until nearly midnight before sneaking out of the hospital. That's when I met Timeus for the first time, he was waiting for me as he apparently knew I wouldn't want to stick around there."
"I've known you long enough to know that you hate staying in hospitals," Josh commented with a laugh.
"That's true," Eliz muttered.
"Hey," Harry said indignantly, "I have a good reason for not wanting to be in hospitals, I've seen them enough to hate them. Anyway, Timeus explained about my magic, Icharus, and all that before telling me that nobody in this time could train my powers because of the strength they had grown to. He told me that he was sending me to Atlantis to train before bringing me back here so I wouldn't hurt anyone that I knew, which I didn't want, and I agreed. The smart-ass decided it would be funny to drop me into something called the Forbidden Meadows which nearly got me thrown into jail.
"From there I met a healer named Madame Roselaray who told me where I was and cast a translation charm on me so I could hold a conversation. Once I explained how I got to the Forbidden Meadows she went pale and immediately set out to find the council whom wanted to question me. While she was gone I thought up a new name that would seem more appropriate based on the words that I had heard her speak. I chose the name Dielare Samiz just before they entered the room and when I told them that I even made a few faint. I found out later that there was a prophecy about me, but I'll explain that later. Once they all recovered they told me they needed to discuss what to do with me, but the King, his name was Leos, told me that he would send someone in to teach me the language. He sent his daughter Seliv in to teach me the language, for which I was grateful. We didn't get much work done in the time that we had, but we got some done.
"What I need to point out here and it's something Josh knows well, is that at this point in time I was afraid to ask questions and I had a hard time believing anyone could care about me. This all stems from how I was treated at my relatives house while growing up, which is also the reason I suppressed my magic, because they not only verbally and emotionally abused me, but they also physically abused me. Well, my 'Uncle' did at any rate.
"Leos came back in to ask me a few more questions about why I was there and I explained everything hoping that I wouldn't be chucked out with no way to train because I didn't want to inadvertently hurt someone. He told me that he would talk to the council again and sent Seliv to fetch Eliz who would be my trainer. He told me to get some rest, which I agreed since I was tired, and after they left I had a nightmare about how I grew up so I became distant to them all."
"Wait," Albus intervened here, "How bad was it truly?"
"Ask Josh for some specifics if you want to know. I told him some of it, or you can ask Eliz, I really don't want to remember those things any more than I have to," Harry answered while Eliz was nodding understandingly.
"Alright, please continue," Albus said.
"Okay, well from there I began my training and frustration of Eliz since I would barely talk and didn't interact more than I had to. It didn't take them long to break through my walls and get me to open up a little, but it was harder than they wanted it to be. They taught me to fly, a faster communication system, the language, and how to use my powers. Of course my training was a hair rushed due to the fact that someone on the council was trying everything to find out about me so he could use it against me in some way. He had it out for me from day one for some unknown reason. Towards the end of my training Eliz and I started growing closer, while I saw Seliv as a sister I wanted to be with Eliz, and after my training was complete I got my chance."
"What powers," Hermione asked. As far as she knew a person could only use a wand to do magic, unless he was talking about being a seer or something.
"I'm a mage in Elemental Magiks and Wizarding Magic," Harry responded.
"As am I, which is why I was the one who trained him," Eliz chimed in.
"There's no such thing as Elementals," Hermione spluttered.
"I disagree Hermione, how would you explain my ability to do this otherwise," Harry commented before materializing his staff and causing a small tremor in the castle. It was nothing that would cause damage, but something that would get his point across. A minor earthquake was easy enough for most Earth Elementals after all.
"How is that possible," she muttered nearly incoherently.
"Just because it hasn't been achieved in quite a long time doesn't mean it's impossible Ms. Granger," Albus answered knowing exactly what her problem was. Hermione believed too much in books, and quite a few authors wrote that it was impossible for a witch or wizard to control the elements of nature. "If I may ask Mrs. Potter, what elements can you control?"
"I have power over Earth and Fire, the way to tell an Elementals power is first through their eye color. It will be an unnatural shade of the color, as Harry and I both have vibrant green eyes it shows our Earth powers, if they are in control of a second element It will show through their hair. As you can see my hair is a vibrant red showing my power over fire," she explained "For a third element it would show up as a second eye color, even though nobody in history has achieved that, and a fourth we presume would affect the hair as in two colors intertwined in the hair. Even though I am a mage I have half the power as Harry does in Earth as it is split equally to my fire element, and if I were to have a third it would be a third of the power as that power would need to be cut in three to serve the three elements."
"I see," Albus replied as he soaked in the information while Hermione appeared to be going catatonic at her infallible books being wrong. One day he'd have to talk to her about that.
"Shall I continue now," Harry asked fairly amused.
"Please do," Albus responded.
"The week that my training finished is when the first attack of the war begun. We were out on a double date with Seliv and her intended when that section of town was attacked by Chimeras and Manticores. Seliv nearly lost her life while her intended, Zolegran, did lose his. He died protecting Seliv from a Chimera that we didn't notice getting close, and up until that point we didn't even know that they were fighting as we thought the guards would keep them in the restaurant that we had vacated. After taking care of the creatures I transformed for the first time and took Seliv to the medical ward in the castle so she could get help."
"Sorry to interrupt yet again," Albus began, "But what can you transform into?"
"It's part of my heritage, I can transform into a phoenix, which is why I can converse with Fawkes."
"But that's impossible, the royal line of Atlantis died out," Albus exclaimed, "There haven't been any phoenix animagi for nearly 100 years!"
"That maybe true, but as the bloodline becomes more diluted the descendants lose the ability. When two distant relations sire an offspring the royal line is renewed. The child is called the Phoenix Lord as not only does the child have the ability to transform into a phoenix, but they can also converse with phoenix as I showed you last time we were here. The royal line has a few animagi forms that it tends to stick to, but I don't feel I need to go into that now."
"Can I ask a question," Hermione asked scared. She didn't want to anger either of these two with how powerful they appeared to be.
"Of course, and don't be afraid to ask a question, just remember that books are fallible because the authors of those books were human so they could be wrong," Eliz answered.
"How can you do wandless magic? I had heard it was impossible," she asked a little more confidently.
"It's not impossible, but it is extremely difficult for the normal witch or wizard to accomplish. We can do just about any spell wandlessly because we learned our Elemental powers first which are all done wandlessly, and that lent itself to helping us do Wizarding magic wandlessly. Most wizards and witches are able to do simple spells wandlessly if they train, but the more complex the spell the harder it is. That's why it died out, most decided to just stick to their wands and only Elementals continued with the tradition," Eliz explained.
"To make a long story short after that, we trained a lot of people to fight the war while I was healing from my emotional scars with Seliv's help. At the end of the war I summoned a Goddess that evened the odds for us and we won. After that Timeus sent both of us to 1974 as I wasn't going anywhere without Eliz," Harry summed up.
"What was the war about," Albus asked.
"It was over power, as is most wars," Harry said before elaborating, "Leos' wife died when Seliv was little, and he eventually remarried, however he didn't know that his new wife would treat his daughter so horribly. Basically she was treated almost as badly as I was growing up, and when he found out he stripped her of title and inheritance before banishing her from the kingdom. Nobody knew that she bided her time gathering forces to eventually take the throne, and she even had a front man telling the troops her orders as if they were his. In the end she was killed by the Goddess I summoned and sent to the lowest levels of Hell."
"How were you able to summon a Goddess," Josh asked dumbfounded. He would admit he was kind of sketchy about all this magic stuff, but the looks on Hermione and Albus' face when Harry talked about summoning her didn't make sense, it appeared they had never heard of it either.
"That would be my third power, I'm a Summoner. I can summon a God or Goddess in times of need. Although I hope I never have to again, because I pulled this particular Goddess away from something important and let's just say she wasn't too happy," Harry explained with a chuckle.
"You wouldn't be happy either if your first day in over a half a century without a break was interrupted," Nyx mock-scolded from the corner where she had been hiding watching the events with an amused expression.
"Nyx," Harry exclaimed happily before giving her a hug.
"Hello Harry, hello Eliz," she said happily as she hugged them back. She had only visited for dinner once since he had gotten back and was quite amused at their plans for a prank on the Headmaster. She didn't tell them that she had planned on showing up.
"Hello Nyx, it's good to see you again," Eliz commented smiling brightly, "Why didn't you tell us you were coming today?"
"I wanted it to be a surprise, because after you told me about the prank you were going to pull I just had to see for myself what was going to happen. I told Tenebrae to keep my children busy or I would force him to spend a day in the area of Hell he can only stand for five minutes," she said with a giggle. Both Harry and Eliz laughed along with her as they had gotten to know her better the other night they knew that her husband was wrapped around her finger despite the fact that he had created her.
"Would you care to introduce us Harry," Albus asked quite amused.
"My apologies Albus," Harry said with a smirk, "Let me introduce the Queen of Darkness, Lady Nyx." This introduction made Hermione faint once again and Albus go rather pale as someone so high on the Darkness scale was standing in his office.
"Oh don't worry yourself Albus, I may be the Queen of Darkness but that's only because the universe needs balance. It needs both Light and Darkness or it would unmake itself," she explained.
"Albus, despite the fact that she's the Mother of all Darkness she's one of the nicest women you'll ever meet. She's like family," Harry told the old wizard.
"Al…Alright," Albus stammered.
"That was more amusing then when we revealed ourselves," Harry commented before waking Hermione.
"I wanted to congratulate you two on your marriage also," Nyx commented, "You both remained faithful to the old morals even whilst pretending to be wed. It has made a lot of Gods and Goddesses pleased with you."
"That's good to know," Eliz commented as she helped Hermione to her feet.
"How are things going between your kids and the Light borns," Harry asked.
"Still as bad as ever," Nyx commented, "I won't pretend my kids are innocent in all this, but even Deus can't stand the way his own children think! Just because they are Light born they think that automatically makes them right."
"They'll learn someday," Eliz commented as Josh helped her get Hermione onto the sofa again as she was in shock once again.
"By the way," Nyx began, "Civilia and Myself are going to raise the old Atlantis in a month's time and hide it magically so only you two can find it. That way when you are finished with this war you can rebuild it and claim the throne as you were meant to."
"Thank you Nyx," Harry said whilst hugging her.
"You're welcome Harry," Nyx commented, "I'll bring Civilia by sometime next week so you can meet her yourself and get to know her. She's one of the only Light born Goddesses I can stand, her and Minnie actually think for themselves sometimes. Minnie does all the time, but Civilia does occasionally."
"That sounds great, just let us know so we can prepare enough food, you immortals can pack away quite a bit," Eliz joked.
"At least it doesn't do a thing to my figure," Nyx replied carrying on with the joke.
"Your Majesty, will the Gods and Goddesses be taking sides in this war," Albus asked.
"Not officially unless Harry here summons one of us, although unofficially I'm rooting for Harry," she replied, "We have to stay out of the affairs of Mortals unless we are summoned by one. It was a decree made millennia ago that even the royals of the Gods cannot break."
"I understand," Albus responded a little disappointed.
"Do not worry, I'm sure that you'll have more than enough help in the coming conflicts," Nyx commented, "If I know these two they'll most likely train your fighters like mad so they can take care of the Death Eaters that Voldemort sends."
"Well, now that everything is explained and you know I don't need training I think Eliz and I have some celebrating to take care of," Harry commented.
"That would be fine, when do you think you'll be back," Albus asked.
"Just give us a couple days," Eliz replied, "We just want a few days to ourselves before we jump into another war."
"Understandable," Albus responded.
"We'll see you next week Nyx," Eliz said before hugging her.
"See you then," she replied before disappearing.
"We'll see the rest of you in a few days," Harry commented before guiding Eliz out of the office leaving the occupants to digest what they'd learned today.
A/N: Wow, that's the longest chapter I've ever written! Don't expect the rest of them to match this one, lol, I don't know if I could manage it. Hope ya'll enjoyed it!
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Gaul1: For the wedding Eliz went by the name Samiz as Pendragon would be too noticeable. I skipped the wedding out of necessity since I couldn't write it to save my life, lol. I just skipped to where they were signing the documents and leaving as a sort of compromise.
Miss Us Padfoot: I hope the wait was worth it, lol.
Joejoe103: Thanks for the confidence booster, I'll try to keep the updates to every 2 days. I was late on this chapter because I was trying to figure out how to write the wedding before I decided to just cut it out. I hope the wait was well worth it.
Shdurrani: Thanks, and I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far.
Bukama: That didn't come up in the discussions, but there will be some confrontations coming soon, lol.
Sambow24: Lol, thanks. I'm not one for waiting to put them up so I'm glad everyone thinks I can go without a beta. I'm glad you're enjoying it so far.