-1A/N: As of the moment I write this no reviews. I'm depressed, but will continue on. I still need people to vote or offer suggestions. I believe this story will be about fifty chapters, maybe longer, the details aren't sure yet. It will be at least 100,000 words before it is over. Hope you enjoy this chapter, any questions, comments, or concerns e-mail me at the address on my profile page.
Disclaimer: I forgot last chapter, sorry. I do not own rights to Harry Potter or any of its characters, nor Final Fantasy or any of its. I do not own anything in this story, so don't sue.
Chapter 1: Deal
I awoke after being sucked into the veil. I do have to admit that I was surprised I was not dead. My hand still grasped my wand. Seeing my wand snapped me to attention and as I drew it I looked around for signs of Voldemort or Snape. Seeing none I lowered it.
'Ha maybe they didn't make it.' I thought to myself.
I stood up. First thing I noticed was the ground. It was gravelly and almost purple in color. The second thing I noticed was that my clothes had not come with me. I glanced around hoping no one had seen and saw to girls giggling at me. I blushed crimson. It took a moment for me to come to my senses and transfigure some rocks into clothes. I would make sure I got some at my next opportunity.
Finally having the clothing on; the two girls slightly put out that their sport had dressed, walked up the narrow archway into a big bubbly thing. I looked around for the first time. To say the least I was stunned the buildings were all made of metal and were taller than I had ever seen. Wherever I had ended up was a mechanical master. The big bubbly thing seemed to be shaped like a sphere and from what I could tell, I could here people screaming from within.
I started walking up and almost made it through when a hand on my shoulder stopped me.
"What do you think you're doing?" A man snarled at me. He was dressed in yellow and purple robes a strange electrical device in his hand. It looked like electricity coming out of a sword.
"Whoa. Hold on. I was just trying to get a look inside!" I said anxiously. The guard obviously didn't believe me.
"Yeah right. What are you wearing? No. Never mind. I don't want to know. Do you have a ticket?" The guard asked menacingly.
"Ticket?"
"What are you some kind of wise guy? You wanna take a trip downtown? Do you or do you not have a Blitzball ticket?" The guard was becoming annoyed from what I could tell.
"Uh, no? What's Blizbull?" I asked.
"Blitzball! You say another word and I'll drag you downtown!" The guard took a step forward brandishing what I assumed to be a weapon.
"…Where am I?" I blurted out, and apparently the guards temper broke.
"That's it! I'm taking you downtown to the Zanarkand Penitentiary. Lets go!" The guard said grabbing me by the scruff of the neck. Big mistake.
"Stupefy!" I yelled out jabbing my wand at the guards stomach, he fell to the ground unconscious. I dragged the body to the edge of the bubble thing. I thought about going inside when another guard began patrolling inside. I decided then it wasn't worth it. I heard cheering inside and realized it must be a singer or sport of some type. I stepped out of the blue bubble, and looked around. The streets were pretty much deserted. I squinted my eyes, thank god Neville had found a cure for sight and hearing loss. I no longer needed glasses to see. Squinting even with my improved eye sight, I could see a man jumping from building to building heading towards me, or more precise the bubble.
The man was about thirty, around the age of my godfather, or around the age he was. He fell through the veil and was never seen again, I was told he died, but after discovering I'm not dead, I don't believe this was true. The man looked so serious and was dressed in the strangest outfit I had ever seen, up till then. He was dressed black pants, and black armor? He wore a long red coat and kept his arm in a sling, strapped to his back was a very large and sharp sword. He also wore a belt with a canteen on its side, he wore shades too. I noticed a lot of people running and it wasn't until I looked slightly behind and above him that I realized why.
Behind him bigger than anything I had ever seen. It looked almost whale-like except it had legs and fins, it looked like a hybrid between a whale and frog. The creature was gray, black, and from what I could tell slightly purple as well. Water was circling around it, and it seemed to be following the man. I for a moment thought about casting a spell on the guy, but something held me back.
Everything around me stopped at the beast and man came nearer, the people inside, the blue bubbly thing, possibly a stadium started screaming and exiting. As a boy about my age was falling from the sky, everything the pain, chaos, and breathing stopped.
Blinking once or twice I turned around and saw a small child dressed in purple robes; these people seemed to really like the color.
"Who are you?" I said stupidly. First thing that came to my head.
"I am a fayth." The small child said, and then I realized he was slightly transparent.
"Oh." I paused a moment before asking, "What is a fayth."
"I am." I blinked, this was going nowhere.
"So…what do you want?" I mentally hit myself. 'Great Harry, just great, making a total idiot out of yourself in front of a total stranger; a child no less!'
"I am no child. How did you come here?" The fayth said in a child-like voice making it sound puzzled.
"Me? Well a spell cast by an insane idiot. That good enough for you, or should I tell you the whole story?" I said sarcastically, but it was the truth, even though using sarcasm to say it.
"I see." The fayth thought for a moment and an uncomfortable silence followed. "Very well. You will do."
"Do? Do what?"
"Follow the other boy, his name is Tidus. Follow him help him in his quest, it is why you are here. Fate has intervened. It would explain…" He trailed off, while I waited for him to continue. "Will you do this? The planet's future depends on the success of this quest."
'Great. Just bloody great. Once again on a totally different planet I am selected to try and save the future of a planet, bloody brilliant!' I thought in my head, the fayth somehow got through my shields.
"Again? So you have saved a planet before?" The fayth asked sharply reminding me a little of McGonagall.
"Er. I'd rather not say." I said knowing what would happen if I answered.
"I see," the fayth said. "If you help in this quest, I swear to you after it is complete that my brethren and I will do all we can to return you to your home world." My eyes shot up at this, perhaps I would agree to this quest after all.
"Fine, I agree, you get me home after the quest, I'll put my trust in you. But caution, my trust is not easily given. You betray me and you will not like the consequences." I said nodding my head to the fayth, who hesitated a moment.
"Very well, once the quest is over, we will do all we can to return you home, although it may take a while. The quest starts now!" The fayth said and disappeared.
Everything slowly returns to normal, the explosions die down and I dodge a falling piece of metal. I notice how extensive the damage is. Buildings are torn asunder, water is beginning to turn red and oily, with the scent of blood, and the stadium has been totally destroyed. I see the boy who is my assignment out of the corner of my eye.
I run over to see that he is okay, I offer a hand and he takes it. Helping him up I notice that he is dressed in more peculiar garb than the other guy with shades. Tidus is wearing a jumper with a yellow and blue shirt underneath, and a pair of shorts one leg longer than the other. His hair is spiked and he has green eyes, not emerald green like mine, but pale green. He glances at my scar, but probably just thinks it is odd.
"Are you okay Tidus?" I ask before hitting myself at my stupidity. I've never met him before, and he was probably thinking the same thing.
"Yeah. Wait how'd you know my name?" Tidus asks me with suspicion in his eyes. I wrack my brain trying to think of an excuse before blurting out the first thing I could think of.
"Blitzball?" Even I thought it sounded like a question, but apparently Tidus didn't.
"Oh, right." He says laughing. "What's your name, seeing as you already know mine?"
"Harry-Watch out!" I yelled taking out my wand and saying Wingardium Leviosa. Tidus watched in amazement as the rock came under my power and I just threw it away.
"Thanks." Tidus said gulping.
"No problem. We should probably get out of here." I say running down the path, and then stopping as Tidus slows down and yells out.
"Auron! What are you doing here?" Tidus exclaims, staring questioningly at the man with the shades.
"I was waiting for you." the man in red wearing shades said. I had finally learned his name, it was Auron. I decided to make sure the guy was safe, so making sure he wasn't looking. I whispered Legilimens and got a sneak peak through the man Auron's mind. Or tried to would be more precise. He shields were stronger than any I had previous encountered including Voldemort and Snape's.
"What are you talking about?" Tidus said confused, I got the impression he became confused a lot.
"Ah, now who is this?" Auron asked looking at me.
"He said his name was Harry." Tidus supplied.
"Harry. An unusual name, for one with unusual powers." He leaned down and whispered in my ear so Tidus could not hear. "The fayth have told me about you Harry, one with unique powers, who will be a valuable asset on this quest. I agree with the fayth, you would be a valuable asset, but don't try to look in my mind again." My jaw dropped. How did he know? No never mind.
"You two coming?" Auron asked spinning on his heel and walking away. Tidus runs after him, I follow at a slower pace, but till close to them. I was still surprised he knew, but put it behind me.
Running down the streets following Tidus and Auron I realize that they are in no better condition than the stadium. The streets are cracked and broken, and pandemonium takes over the minds of all, as they run this way and that, not really knowing where they are going. Suddenly as we are about a fourth of the way down the street time freezes. I'm almost caught up in the freezing as well, but my power interferes with it and I watch as the little fayth guy appears in front of Tidus.
"It begins." The fayth said.
"What?" Tidus says, quite lost at where this conversation is going, also reevaluating what I already knew.
"Don't cry." the fayth says, before time suddenly goes back to normal, the fayth vanishing without a trace.
The time stop ends and I blink before chasing after Tidus as he calls out to Auron.
"What the...Hey! Wait!" Tidus exclaims, catching up to him.
"Hey, not this way!" Tidus says to Auron. Auron just looks at him.
"There is a reason we're heading towards that large creature, right?" I asked having a feeling that it had something to do with my quest.
"Look." Tidus glances upwards to the creature where the floating balls of water are diverging. Gasping he turns back to Auron.
"Um, what is that thing?" I asked. I could feel the power radiating from it, the power was neither good nor evil, just was.
"We called it Sin."
"Sin?" Tidus and I said at the same time. Suddenly another explosion is heard and a large tentacle like creature slams into a building. The tentacle seems to sit there before waving around and having flying blue almost scale-like pods come at us. The pods slam into the ground in front of us opening up to show small blue bug-like creatures with wings.
"What the bloody hell are those?" I ask reverting to the language Ron used to use.
"Sinscales." Auron replied, watching in amusement as a large number of the creatures circle Tidus as he tries to hit them back. Auron pulls a sword out from where his sword was kept, I notice that there is one other sword, this one is slightly chipped. Auron notices me looking at it. "Rune Sword, broke many ages ago, I found it in my travels." He then turns to Tidus.
"Take it." He says to him holding out the red sword. Tidus takes it and does fine for a moment before having it fall to the ground, he apparently did not realize how heavy it was.
"A gift from Jecht." Auron said. I was lost as I didn't know who or what Jecht was.
"My old man?" Tidus says, apparently stunned. I of course do not know why. He runs forward swiping at a few of the sinscales. The sinscales back off seeing the sharp weapon.
"I hope you know how to use it." Auron says to Tidus before turning to me. "I do not have a sword for you, sit back and watch."
Apparently this Auron thought that they would let me sit back and do nothing. I had two ways I could deal with the sinscales, I decided to use the easier way first. I take out my wand and Auron raises an eyebrow.
"A stick?" He asks.
"Not just a stick watch." I say turning the stick at an incoming sinscale. "Stupefy!" I yell this and to my astonishment the sinscale vanishes in a burst of fireflies.
"I won't doubt you again." Auron says decapitating a sinscale that got too close.
"But that wasn't supposed to happen. It was just supposed to knock it out. Not kill it!" I exclaimed aghast, the guard I stunned, it might now be dead. Auron seeing my shock tried to lessen it.
"Perhaps it is just the sinscales, they are among the weakest of the fiends, but they do swarm-Watch out!" He cried slicing a sinscale in half. Tidus also breathes a sigh of relief, Auron had killed one sneaking up behind him.
"Stupefy! Stupefy! Stupefy!" I yelled three times the three sinscales in front of us bursting into fireflies, there was probably a correct name for them, but now was not a good time for me to ask.
"These ones don't matter! We cut through!" Auron says running ahead through the gap decapitating one or two sinscales in the way. Tidus and I follow.
I growled angrily kicking out at a sinscale that got in my way, it squealed and fell over the side of the street, into the dark fiery water below. A terrible noise was then heard, a noise of a creature capturing prey. It seems as if Auron had just arrived in front of another, or possibly the same tentacle from before. It was now in middle of the street, blocking our passage. It was surrounded by three smaller sinscales. Tidus stares at the large creature and I look to see if it has a weakness. Auron smirks.
"The tentacle is known as a Sinspawn. Stand back. I'll handle this." he says, before he thrusts his left hand forward, pulling his sword back as he does so. Jg high into the air, he spins his sword around, before falling back down and planting it into the ground. Explosions erupt over each of the scales, and the tentacle creature instantly killing the three scales, and wounding the tentacle.
"That was Dragon Fang." He says pulling the sword from the ground. The Sinspawn takes the time to retaliate.
The area goes dark, before a blast of purple and black shoot out creating an orb hitting the three of us. It hurt. It felt like someone expanded you to three times the normal expansion and thing crushed you as hard and small as possible. It felt like someone grasping your heart and squeezing it, while still being within your body. It was almost as painful as the Cruciatus curse, but not quite as painful. It hurt a lot. It left us hunched over for a minute or so, luckily it apparently took time to recharge its attack. I looked at Tidus and noticed he was looking pretty ticked. He clenched his fists and then recklessly charges the Sinspawn, doing a series of acrobatic moves before slamming the sword down on it. It screeches in pain, but doesn't appear to be dead yet. I had no idea what those moves were called, but they were amazing. I decided I had had enough with magic, the stunning spells only seemed to heal it. I took my wand and mumbled gladius. Instantly my wand began to change. First a handle began to form a brilliant with rubies the size of eggs, and then a large silver blade appeared above, the name Godric Gryffindor appearing in flaming red letters just below the hilt. Tidus watched in amazement, and Auron's eyebrows raised again questioningly. I looked at them and said.
"Magic." I then swung in making as if to cut the creature in half, all three of us were surprised when it did just that. One half flopped to the left, the other to the right before exploding a in a flash of light causing us to shield our eyes. After this Auron once again runs ahead. Tidus and I following.
"How many more times, is he just going to leave us?" I ask becoming annoyed with the older man.
"Don't know." Tidus says shrugging before following the warrior. As we run Tidus happens to glance at a billboard showing a picture of a man. Tidus seems to glare at it.
"What are you laughing at, old man?" he says making me look at him. So that was his old man, I didn't know. He must have had something against him, the way his voice growled out the words. He turned to Auron as we caught up. "Auron! Let's get out of here!"
"We're expected." he replies before setting off in a run again.
"Huh? Give me a break!" Tidus says before running after him again. I followed smirking.
Suddenly without warning we are completely surrounded by hundreds of the scales. I hear myself growl in annoyance before taking out three with my sword, only to step back as ten new ones take their place. Tidus took out two, and Auron had taken out a good four. He looks to see if a plan is out, he and I think of the same thing at once.
"Knock down the crane!" I yell.
"That-knock it down!" Auron yells pointing to the same crane. The crane or whatever type of machinery it may be is halfway off the edge. Tidus nods and begins swiping it with his sword while Auron and I hold off the scales. We get back to back and begin fighting them off. Auron does pretty well, until one sneaks up on him and shoots him with needle like items. I find out for myself just how much they really hurt as one spikes me in the arse. Growling I decapitate the sinscale who spiked me. After quite a bit of time, and with many bruises Tidus eventually manages to cut through the chain and we all watch; sinscales included, as the machinery falls below.
"Wahoo! Got it!" Tidus yells.
Now the good news is this took care of the remaining sinscales. The bad news is that the street we were on began to collapse. The entire bridge began collapsing around us. So we ran(again) for our lives down the bridge, which is collapsing right behind us. Auron jumps over first and I running a little faster, with people trying to kill you, you learn how to run well, Tidus is the last one who jumps. Tidus however isn't as lucky as a piece of the falling bridge falls and creates an explosion sending Tidus to make a desperate leap to where we are. He barely makes it too. He just manages to catch a piece of road that as the moment is pointing diagonally upwards.
"Auron! Auron!" Tidus yells desperately as I glance at Auron to see what to do. The monk turns around and stares strait up, which of course causes myself and Tidus to do the same. Above us seems to be a great whirlpool sucking up everything nearby.
"You are sure?" Auron asks what I'm almost positive is Sin, before looking back down at Tidus. "This is it." he says, grabbing him by his shirt collar. "This is your story. It all begins here." he says, right before he and I are sucked into the whirlpool. Tidus follows a moment after, screaming the whole way. And so it begins...
A/N: The first chapter is now complete, I hope you enjoyed. Remember I still need people to vote, or give possible ideas. Please take the time to read and review. I'd like to know your opinion.
Decided
FF10(X)
FFX-2
Wormtail AU HP (decided)
Highly probable
Lord of the rings
Legend of Zelda
FF8
Probable
Alternate Realities of Harry Potter (probably one or two, any suggestions will be taken in consideration)
Undecided
Other (offer suggestions, I will take anything into consideration)
Xanth (undecided)
Kingdom Hearts (undecided)
Final Fantasy 9 (undecided)
Final Fantasy 7 (undecided)
Marauders Era AU (undecided)
Artemis Fowl (undecided)
