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Chapter 4: Hogwarts Express
'Alright, everyone on the Spirit of Fire, NOW!' ordered Hao as he summoned sof. Yoh, Anna, Lyserg, HoroHoro, Chocolove, Jeanne, Tamao and Ren were struggling with their luggage. Pirika had arrived at the onsen this morning. 'Gah! BANG, CRASH 'ow..' Yoh groaned as HoroHoro managed to drop his trunk onto Yoh's foot. Sighing for the umpteen times this morning, Hao used his furyouku to lift the trunks onto his Mochirei's open hand. When everyone had climbed onto the spirit of fire which took quite a while since Lyserg did not want to step on a murderer's mochirei and Marco trying to convince Jeanne that riding on the Spirit of Fire was very dangerous. Hao ordered the Spirit of Fire to go to King Cross Station.
5 minutes later.
'Are we there yet?' Yoh asked Hao
'No'
'Now are we there?'
'No'
'Now?'
'No'
And so it continues for another half an hour later resulting into Yoh being half fried and Hao looking at Yoh before deciding to fry Yoh totally out of pure amusement.
At King Cross
'We're here' Hao said before continuing to throw fireballs at Yoh. Yoh yelped before running to the station in an amazing speed 'you should do that more often Hao. You can do that during his training at Hogwarts.' 'For once I agree with you Anna' Yoh and co. all entered the station. All of them put their trunks on some trolleys and pushed it to the platforms.
. Facing the platforms Ren asked 'Which train Hao?' 'Platform nine and three quarters.' 'Don't play with me Hao.' 'I'm not' 'In case you haven't noticed, there is only platform nine and ten.' 'Read the ticket yourself' Hao said throwing the ticket to Ren. Ren caught it deftly and look at it. 'He's not kidding.' Said Ren looking at the ticket in disbelief. Everyone else craned their neck to look. 'Hao did you take the wrong ticket?' Hao shook his head and said 'It came this morning, owl-post.'
'Right so we are stuck in a foreign country, foreign station and have no idea where platform nine and three-quarters are.' Concluded Anna. At that moment a group of passed just in front of them and they caught a few words of what they were saying. '-pack with Muggles of course-' Hao who knew what muggles was muttered 'wizards' and followed them. Everyone else followed him blindly thinking he knew where platform nine and three quarters were.
Hao and co. stopped when that group of people stopped. 'Now, what's the platform number?' said the boys' mother. 'Nine and three-quarters!' piped a small girl, also red headed, who was holding her hand. 'Mum, can't I go…' 'You're not old enough, Ginny, now be quiet. All right, Percy, you go first.'
What looked like the oldest boy marched towards platforms nine and ten. They watched, careful not to blink in case he missed it-but just as the boy reached the divide between the two platforms, a large crowd of tourists came swarming in front of them, and by the time the last rucksack had cleared away, the boy had vanished. 'Where he go!' asked HoroHoro in shock. 'Let's go and ask them.' By the time all the lady's children had disappeared.
'Excuse me,' Lyserg said to the plump woman. (A/n: Lyserg is talking in Jap) 'I don't speak Japanese dear.' Said the plump woman. 'Oh, sorry, I forgot about the language here. I-' 'no need to be so polite. First time at Hogwarts?' 'Yes, the thing is we –'Lyserg paused pointing to the group behind him, 'do not know how to get on to the platform.' 'I must be quite a celebrity; another boy just asked me this question. Not to worry, all you have to do is walk straight at the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Don't stop and don't be scared you'll crash into it, that's very important. Best do it at a bit of run if you're nervous. Now chop chop, it's almost eleven o'clock.'
'Er..ok' said Lyserg. 'You heard her?' 'Yep' Said Yoh and he ran towards the barrier with his trolley. As Yoh came closer to the barrier, everyone braced for a crash but nothing was heard. They looked and found Yoh missing. 'He went through the barrier.' Said Hao reading their minds. Everyone scowled at Hao. Who wouldn't be displeased with a person who reads people's mind without their consent? Hao simply smile and took a stroll towards the barrier and he went through it. Everyone did the same and found themselves in another train station. A scarlet steam engine was waiting next to a platform packed with people. A sign overhead said Hogwarts Express. 'Well people, time to get on the train' Hao said with trunks floating around him. Apparently Hao figured that using his furyouku to lift the trunks were better than letting the clumsy people like HoroHoro carry them up the train.
In the train
After a few minutes of searching, they managed to find a compartment to settle in. In the compartment, a red headed boy named Ron and another boy named Harry sat there talking before they came in. 'So you all are wizards eh?' Hao said and both Harry and Ron nodded. 'mmm…Harry, you aren't Harry potter by any chance are you?' 'Harry nodded again. Hao by instinct pushed away some of Harry's fringe revealing a thunderbolt scar. 'So it's true, GS really knows a lot.' 'GS?' asked Ron. 'Great Spirit.' 'Oh… by the way you haven't introduced yourself.' Everyone paused in whatever they were doing.
Hao stood up and said 'That is ice queen, Anna, Yoh, my younger brother, HoroHoro, Pirika, Horo's younger sister, Ren from the Tao clan, Chocolove, the worst joker ever, Lyserg and Jeanne, the holy maiden. Oh and myself Asakura Hao. We're all shamans.' pointing at the respective person. 'Shamans?' 'People who connect the underworld and this world. We can allow a spirit to posses us or integrate them with an object.' 'Cool, what do you all do?' 'We participated the shaman fight a month ago. The shaman fight is where all shamans gather to fight each other to get the Great Spirit and be crowned Shaman King. GS will grant the winner a wish.'
'Oh…so who won?' 'The shaman fight was called off due to a reason which will remain unknown to you people.' Hao said grimly. This time Harry spoke up, 'What spirits do you have?' 'Lyserg has Morphine a fairy, HoroHoro has Kororo a Koroppo Kuru, Yoh has a ghost samurai, Amidamaru, Jeanne has none since I prefer you not to know, Chocolove has a ghost cheetah, Mic, Ren has Bason a ghost warrior, Tamao has Conchi and Ponchi, Anna has Zenki and Kouki which was originally my shikigami, and last of all I have Spirit of Fire.' At the end of Hao's speech, all spirits was present except SoF and Zenki and Kouki since they were too big.
'wow.' And the rest of the journey was spent talking to each other and Anna making Yoh do his training on the train. Hao decided to make Yoh run faster by throwing fireballs at him causing Yoh to run ten times faster. Harry and Ron stared thinking 'what a weird group of people'