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Chapter 2: Water Tower
I don't remember what actually happened. One moment I'm spinning through something like a giant whirlpool in the air, and the next I'm lying on my stomach in another strange place. It hit me again that I was alone, alone in an unknown world.
Looking around I notice that I seem to be near some large stone structure. The stone structure did not look like it was inhabited by any living creature. It is quite a ways away, and I'm surrounded by water on all sides, except for small rock I happened to fall on. Coincidence? Not likely.
I look down at myself and then look around again. It seems the travel by sin has once again rid me of any clothing. It was due to change soon anyway. If I don't redo the transfiguration spell, it will automatically disappear and turn back to whatever material I used to create the item with. It was a pain, and had already caught me in at least one embarrassing situation. I really needed to get some real clothes. Quickly I pick up a few rocks and transfigure them into shoes, socks, shorts, boxers, and a t-shirt. After putting them on, I notice quite a few structures in all directions.
As I make up my mind to make my way over to a smaller structure to the east with stairs leading upwards, I notice that I am not the only person on the stone. Tidus is lying unconscious next to me, I try to shoo a red bird that had landed to watch us. Normally a bird would be no problem, but with the many animagus forms, it was better safe than sorry.
I wait awhile taking in my surroundings. The water seems calm, and there are not too many fish swimming around below. Just small minnow like fish, nothing to cause any alarm. I do admit I was slightly worried by the fact that there were no larger fish around to eat the minnows. It bold ill feelings. Tidus groaned beside me.
"Hey, wake up." I said softly, Tidus shuffled once, and it took me a moment to realize he was sleeping. Rolling my eyes, at this behavior that reminds me uncannily like Ron, I give him a shake.
"W-what?" Tidus moans.
"Get up!" I watch as Tidus responds to my words and instantly shoots up, before falling back down holding his head.
"Oh." He says again shaking his head. He looks around, blinks once, twice, then turns to me. "Where are we?"
"I have no idea." I pause before asking. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine. Who are you again?" Tidus asks me, apparently having forgot my name, I probably would have forgot his as well, if I had not had such a good mind.
"Harry. Harry Potter. Leader of Dumbledore's Army. Gray wizard extraordinaire. Delighted to meet you Tidus." I say seeing if he recognizes any of the names I mentioned in. To my surprise he does know one.
"Wizard? Isn't that another name for a male Mage?" he asks me, and I blink in confusion. "You know, Sorcerers are called Mages, another name for these are wizards. Sorceresses or witches are called Mages as well. The other terms are used the least often."
"Oh." I say surprised. I didn't think Tidus knew of wizards and witches, or, excuse me, mages.
"I've heard of many types of Mages, Blue, Red, Yellow, Black, White, but never have I heard of a gray mage. Mages were rare in Zanarkand, only a total of twelve for the whole city, one of each color I believe. Gray though I have never heard. I was just curious also what is Dumbbelldoor's Army? Is it named after a country?" Tidus asked me, terribly misspelling Dumbledore. I almost laughed at the mispronunciation, of my former Headmaster.
"It's nothing. It does not matter. I believe we should begin looking for shelter soon." I abruptly changed the subject, I did not know enough to explain, and even if I did, I was in a whole different place, so the most I could do was confuse him.
"Shelter? I know it's cold, but why do we need to get shelter?" Tidus asked me curious.
"Because of the cold, and the storm that is heading this way." I said in the beginning stages of annoyance. Tidus stands up suddenly.
"Anybody there? Auron! Heeey!" he yells, getting no response, except the calm moving of the water nearby, the minnows scatter, and the big red bird flies off towards the towers peak, where a bunch of the same birds are flying around. For a moment I'm tempted to fly up there myself. I point at it and Tidus follows me into the water, heading towards the stone tower.
I don't understand. What is this quest I'm supposed to accomplish? The fayth said I had to complete it in order for them to return me home. But what is it? I do hope Snape or Voldemort did not arrive here, so far I haven't seen them, maybe I can hope for the best.
My thoughts were interrupted by Tidus yelling out to me. It ends up I was about to swim right into a wall, barely managing, I turn away from it. I turn to Tidus who has now taken the lead and begin following him.
I follow for a little bit longer, until we reach a ruined structure, that, thank goodness is large enough we can begin walking on. I step up onto it and immediately fall back in the water. It was freezing, I could see Tidus shivering as well. Moss and mold dotted the surface of the ruins, and many pieces of the stone were chipped and cracked, sometimes whole gaps were missing. I take a moment to admire the surroundings, even if it was beautiful in a creepy sort of way, before following Tidus up one of the three stone walkways.
Tidus walks for a minute or two, before stopping in middle of the path to get a look around. I looked down at the peaceful water below us, and for a moment, I almost felt at peace, forgetting about the war, and all who I had lost. A moment.
The path suddenly fell from under us and Tidus and I were thrown into the freezing waters below. I became worried right after touching the water, something was not right. Tidus however doesn't seem to realize the danger we're in, and starts to swim back to the structure. It happens so fast, if I would have blinked I would probably be dead; Tidus almost was.
The water starts turning at remarkable speeds, and I can almost hear the music from the muggle movie Jaws. Something is approaching us, and quickly taking my sword out, I hold it in front of me. Tidus doesn't seem to realize what's happening, but when he sees me pull out my sword, he does the same. The sword seems to move slower in the water, probably due to the density, but Gryffindor's sword is still quite fast. This was to be my first time swimming and fighting in water. Tidus draws his own blade having the same difficulty I had, before raise it above his head as if to taunt whatever was out there; it saved his life.
The creature, or creatures choose that moment to show themselves, and as one of them leaped at Tidus head and was speared by accident, I caught the first glimpse of the creatures. There seemed to be three others not including the one Tidus had accidentally speared. They looked like some sort of mutant piranhas only with legs and much, much bigger. It was easily the size of myself and what I assumed was the leader was at least as tall as Tidus. The fish then decided to surround us.
Tidus looked at his sword in surprise and gulped, removing the carcass of the piranha-like creature it burst into a bunch of fireflies. He blinked and then motioned for me to head over to him.
"Okay, you get the one behind us, and I'll get the one in front, the third is anyone's game." I say to Tidus rushing the piranha creature, I would not learn until much later what the names actually were.
I swim at the first creature and swipe my sword at its belly, to my astonishment I miss. The fish are extremely fast in the water, and I barely dodge an attack from the third one. I see Tidus having some problems as well, although he only has one to fight.
I continued to keep on missing my target and eventually I decided I had had enough. The sword just wasn't cutting it(no pun intended). I wasn't able to keep up with them, especially with needing to keep my head above water, it was then I got the idea. What if I could fight them on their own turf? I quickly cast a spell on myself, and began to sink.
Now if I would have paid attention I would have realized Tidus was panicking above, thinking I had drowned. The spell I had cast upon myself was the bubble-head charm, and I quickly gulped in a burst of air, and changed my wand back to the sword.
I quickly swam, unhindered by lack of air and struck the bottom belly of the first of the beasts, it spilled blood before bursting into the fireflies. I just barely dodged the other creature. The creatures were quite easy to kill, if you could catch them.
I noticed Tidus lying facedown in the water, lifeless. He looked dead. I quickly swam back above the surface towards him, I did not realize what ingenious plan Tidus had come up with.
As I was heading towards him, his adversary was also heading towards, a look of hunger in its eyes, it swam. Fast. Faster. And faster still, towards the floating slab of meat, that was once Tidus. Both the fish and I received a surprise, the fish a nastier one than me.
Just as it was within three or so feet of Tidus, Tidus alive and well, took his sword and rammed it into the jaw of the other beast, more blood spilling before disappearing.
"Tidus! Are you okay?" I asked worried, a bit surprised as well.
"Yeah! No problem!" He called out swimming over to me.
"I thought you were dead! How'd you do that?" I asked him, he merely looked at me and shrugged.
"Beats me, I'm good at strategizing, always have been. Blitzball is also played underwater, so we've learned to hold our breaths for a long time, I think my record was twenty-three hours."
It was then I realized just how much like Ron, Tidus was. Ron who had become an avenger, a berserker, and a threat to the dark. Ron who like Tidus did not act too smart, but when it counted could come up with the greatest plans. He was just like him, just like Ron who was my best friend, greatest ally, and my brother. I was already beginning to understand how much this my world and this one had in common.
"Hey snap out of it!" Tidus yelled at me, and I barely dodged the last fish. A rumbling noise catches our attention and the piranha begins to cower in fear, eyes darting this way and that. I notice the blood in the water and can't help but worry about other predators. I remember back home, that the ocean was home to some of the greatest predators to ever live, sharks. Sharks were a carnivorous fish that has a long body, two dorsal fins, sharp teeth, a cartilaginous skeleton, and thick, rough skin. With pale eyes that could frighten the greatest of men, I remember the one time I had to face a shark. The shark I had faced was a great white, a few death eaters had seen it their duty to take me and my friends to the zoo, for a school holiday. We were put against many creatures, most of them dangerous, the death eaters had set it up, just for us, with the most greatest creatures to ever live. I remember when my bloody body was thrown into the aquarium that held the great beast, it came to me on instinct, it could taste the blood, the death eaters had been starving it, and I was the first prey it had seen for a long time. The blood in the water reminded me of this, and I hoped that I would not have to face yet another of the great beasts.
Snapping out of my thoughts I notice a shadow nearing closer, the rumbling getting louder, I curse before turning my sword back into a wand and casting the bubble-head charm on Tidus. I had a feeling we would have to swim out of there in a hurry, I was right.
A gigantic fish suddenly shoots out and crunches the smaller and soon dead piranha fish, more blood spilling. It takes one bite and it is no more, it then turns it greedy fish-like eyes towards us. I wince internally remembering the zoo incident. Remembering as the terrified students had looked at the white shark. There were three in the pool with me, I and the student nearest to me were lucky. The other two were not. The first student had been flailing in panic, and I guess that is what caused the shark to attack her first. It had swam around her once, twice, and on the third circle it had sped in and swum under her, biting her in half. Guts and innards, and lots of blood had been spread, the shark ate the first half, the legs to the waist, and swallowed before turning and swallowing the other half, I still remember the pleading look she gave me the pain she was in, her last scream as she was swallowed alive by the great beast. The other student had tried to fight back, causing him more pain than the girl. The boy had tried to blind the shark, and if he had had a wand, it probably would have worked, but as it was, he only he had his hands, and it did not do enough. The shark had bit him in the stomach, before swimming by and as the boy in much pain had broken free of his bonds and began to swim it then tore off a leg, an arm, and then the head, followed by the body. It was easily one of the worst torture devices the death eaters and Voldemort had decided to give me. The other boy nearer to me, made it out of that scrape with only the loss of an arm and a large mark across his back. Seeing this creature made me remember it, and although it was not fully a shark, I knew it was within the same family.
It was green, with a huge maw, filled with tiny sharp teeth, and was just as ruthless as the starving white shark. Tidus looks at it and me worriedly before swimming in to slice it across the right flank. As I knew, the sword left a mere scratch on the creature and it counterattacked by ramming into Tidus, knocking the breathe out of him. I breathed a sigh of relief. The shark was playing with his food making sure it was dead before indigestion, like the white did for me and the other boy, it had given us time to escape and come up with a plan.
The shark-like creature begins to swim back and I turn my wand back into a sword and move out of the way, Tidus is hit again. He looks like he is close to losing conscious. I hold out my sword as the shark-creature comes back and feel it scrape across it, I'm surprised to see a little more damage on it that when Tidus did so. I realized it must be the sword so I struck again, Tidus was just starting to come around. The creature bellows whether in pain, or in annoyance I don't know. Tidus and I look at each other and wordlessly decide to make a hasty retreat. We quickly begin swimming the other way, making as many zigzags as we can while looking for someplace to escape the great beast. Tidus diverges from me and I quickly spin around and begin to follow, I realize why.
There only a little bit away is a small opening, possibly a cavern, or entrance to the castle. Looking around while fleeing easily just saved our lives. We quickly swim towards it, the shark although having a head-start on it, quickly beginning to catch up.
The jaws open wide, wider than I ever thought possible and begin to suck in the things around it, attempting to swallow us whole. I realize then that it was just playing with us and the piranha, it could have easily swallowed us whole, but liked to tear flesh. I felt sick. We are both almost completely in the shark's jaws when it suddenly makes a noise and shuts its jaw as it crashes into the wall, the force, then pushes us into the passage and to safety.
I notice just before passing out that our entrance into the cave is blocked off as piles of rocks and debris fall from the resound noise made by the shark-creature.
The first thing I realize as I wake up, is that it is extremely cold in the ruins, the second is that my transfiguration has once again worn off, I grumble angrily, thanking whatever powers that be, that no one actually lived in the ruins. I quickly re-transfigure the rocks into clothing and begin looking around.
Tidus is unconscious and realizing what dangers could happen if he is left asleep to long in the cold, I quickly wake him up.
The moment he's up he begins shivering uncontrollably. I hear him mumbles something to himself.
"Cold...need fire..." he says. He then stands up and begin looking around I watch him go perplexed. First he enters a door and discovers something inside and whoops for joy, he then heads upstairs in search of something.
I shake my head and look to the place a fireplace once was before deciding, Tidus was right. It was cold. Muttering Incedio I begin warming myself up at the fire I had just made.
A few minutes later I hear another whoop of joy as Tidus descends the stairs with a stone and a bunch of weeds in his hand. He stops though and a look of astonishment crosses his face, when he sees me warming up by the fire.
"What? How? When.." I stare at him confused. "You know fire magic?"
"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies." I answer with a grin. "Like Auron said I have unusual powers."
"You could have told me! I've spent…a long time looking for flint and wood. Yet here you are warming yourself up nicely by a fire. I hope your happy, I almost froze to death up there!" Tidus exclaimed pointing above him. I looked up and swore one of the shadows moved, I blinked, but it was gone. Probably just my imagination.
Tidus suddenly falls over on his back and I look at him worriedly until I hear three words. Three words I did not need to hear.
"I need food."
'Thanks a lot Tidus.' I think silently, I could conjure something, but as I'm not sure what kind of food is available in this place, I don't want to risk it. I glare at the other teen as my stomach growls.
Tidus seems to zone out on me, and is staring into space, curious I decide to take a peak at his mind. He is part of my quest after all, and knowing about him would help me. The minding reading does not work as it's supposed to however and soon I'm seeing the same dream as he is.
Flashback)
"What do you want?" Tidus says, staring at Auron, who stands in front of him.
"It was a bad call. Your team lost because of you." Auron replies, a disappointed tone to his voice.
"You came to say THAT!" Tidus says, shocked.
Auron doesn't reply, instead silence overtakes the area for a moment, before Auron speaks again.
"It's been...ten years. I thought you'd be crying."
Tidus stares for a moment, before replying.
"Who, me?"
The fayth suddenly appears then, deciding to add his own input to the conversation.
"You cried."
(End Flashback)
I quickly escape Tidus's mind and look back at the teen, he is still zoned out. The dream makes me remember my own bad calls in life. I quickly shake my head, not wanting to remember, some things are best left alone and unwanted.
I stare at the fire and notice it starting to go out, I quickly pull out my wand and begin to say the spell again when lightning flashes waking Tidus up, and making me see what is on the wall looking down upon us. I glare at it and remain unmoving, turning my wand into a sword quickly, and out of the sight of the creature. Tidus doesn't notice the creature, he's more worried about the fire.
"Hey, wait! Wait! Don't go out on me! Just hold on. I'll get more wood!" Tidus says beginning to stand up, another flash of lightning illuminates the thing and I grab Tidus and turn him towards the creature. The creature realizing that its been discovered clicks angrily.
The clicking creature is purple and blue and looks like a cross between a giant praying mantis and a lizard. It has a long sharp tail which is probably used as balance and could be used as a weapon as well. It begins running around the pillars. In a circle, it takes me only a moment to realize that we are trapped, trapped between a praying mantis creature that has caught its prey.
It continues to run circles, getting closer and closer to the ground before springing off the wall at Tidus, I quickly push him aside and hiss in pain as one of the claws scrapes my leg.
The creature jumps away from me as my blade hits one of its legs. It hisses and jumps at me again, I dodge and watch as Tidus gives a nice cut to the underside of the creature. The creature swipes at him and manages to scrape his arm, but he is not in pain, and lashes again, this time missing. I run, ignoring the pain in my leg, and swipe at a leg, I shear it clean off. The creature jumps back again and hisses in pain. Enraged the creature tries to pounce at me, and my training in the war comes in handy as I roll away. It screeches and heads towards me again. I quickly get up and block the sharp tail that tried to pierce me, I turn and hear Tidus gasp in pain. One of the creatures sharp forelegs has gone through his leg, he drops to the ground in pain. In response I take my sword and shear off another leg, the leg that had been previous in Tidus's leg.
I glare at the creature, the creature glares at me. We stare at each other a long time, neither willing to back down. I call to Tidus who is on the floor, weakly trying to stand up.
"Are you okay?" I ask knowing it must hurt terribly. I wish I could heal him, but that is impossible so long as we are in middle of a battle.
"Yeah, just a small scratch." He says through gritted teeth. "I'll be fine in a moment, distract him."
I blink confused and watch as he takes out a small vial, I realize it is a potion of some type, hopefully a healing one. I nod and turn to the creature. The creature screeches and rushes towards Tidus.
"Oh no you don't." I say swiping my sword managing to cut off a piece of the creatures tail. This seems to hurt it more than losing two legs, and I look astonished that the other legs have grown back. The tail seems to be doing nothing of the sort.
The creature hisses at me and rushes me, I swipe at a leg, a clang sound following, the leg is harder than before, it must be a built in defense mechanism. Realizing this I run around it trying to get at the tail. I get my chance as Tidus fully healed yells out.
"Hey, bird-food, come here, I owe you something!" Tidus yells, and the creature turns towards him giving me a chance to swipe the tail, the tail is sliced completely through and the creature moans in pain, jumping away from us. I walk over to Tidus. Tidus and I stare at the creature, the creature stares back before a resounding explosion is soon heard.
A deafening roar is heard, and a small green object is seen being thrown at the creature, I realize what it is immediately.
"Grenade!" I yell grabbing Tidus and flying forward on the ground. The grenade hit's the creature and is growls in pain, green blood oozing from numerous wounds. The explosion wasn't as big as I thought it would be and I stand up pulling Tidus to his feet as well.
A girl walks out of the now destroyed door followed by a bunch of men with a strange muggle type gun. The girl is dressed in a supposedly very tight bodysuit and goggles. The men raise their guns forward as if to shoot us, but the girl raises a hand and says something in a unintelligible language and steps up next to us. She looks at us, then the creature, and I can almost imagine her smirking as she pulls out another green object. Pulling the pin out she throws it at the creature and it hits dead on, causing its head to completely sever itself from the body. Before it dissolves in fireflies.
I let out a breath I had not realized I was holding, I watch as Tidus goes up and stares the girl in the face. I walk over and decide to thank her for helping us.
"dryhg oui." I say, then shake my head. That wasn't what I meant to say. "Er. I mean thank you."
The girl and the men stare at me and I shift uncomfortably.
"Whew! That was close." Tidus says breaking the moment of silence. The men and girl snap out of the silence and a man walks up to him. All of a sudden he is grabbed from behind, and Tidus immediately begins struggling. I realize that I am to be next and quickly change my sword back into my wand carefully concealing it in my hand.
"Hey! Lemme go!" Tidus cries, but quickly shuts up as more men surround him, this time pointing guns in his face.
"Fryd ec drec?" one of the men says, turning to another, he also points at me while saying it.
"Y fiend! Eh risyh teckieca!" The man the first was talking to exclaims.
"Oac! Ed ec cu!" A third man cuts in. The third man looks at me and says something else unintelligible.
"Ra cbaygc. Ec ra uha uv ic?"
"Hu. Hu ra ec hud. Y cbo uv Oajuh!" The third man says holding his knife to my throat. He doesn't even notice as my wand is against him and I silently say stupefy. To the surprise of all the men and the girl, he drops to the ground unconscious. I grab the person behind me and put my wand to his head.
"Tyr'd dnhiedir li! U nefi byzihm ayo zyoct ryd picuifi. Cid nul ky" I say pointing to Tidus before realizing I hadn't spoken in English again. "Er…I'll release him and revive the one who threatened me, but first you have to let the other go." I was worried. I hoped they didn't think I had killed the one, because things could get ugly very soon.
"Fa gemm ed." One of the men said pointing his gun towards me, I slightly tilt my wand, and say "Accio." The gun soon comes flying over to me, and lands on the floor at my feet. The man who had lost the gun looked at me in fear.
The girl then stands in front of the others, who have all pointed their gun at me, and says something in the unintelligible language.
"Fyed! Fryd ev ed ec risyh?"
The man who had lost his gun looks at me and Tidus and spits out.
"Drao yna dra cysa eh taydr!" The girl looks mad and growls at the man.
"E vunpet ed! Fa pnehk ed fedr ic ymuhk fedr drec uha." The girl points first at me and then Tidus.
"Y tasuh yht y fiend?" A fourth man says angrily. I notice that he only has one eye, and a scar across it, I name him Scar. The girl looks at the man and says angrily.
"Fa tu hud ghuf dryd!"
"Yc oui lussyht." Scar says and I can't help but feel it was sarcastic. Scar walks out the way they came. The girl shakes her head and walks towards me. I continue to point the wand at my hostages head.
"Don't come any closer!" I say and the figure hesitates, just a moment, before continuing towards him.
The girl leans into my face, our bodies close together and she whispers something in my ear.
"Cunno." That was the last thing I heard before falling into unconsciousness from the hit to my stomach, followed closely by my head. I believe Tidus has received the same treatment but by this time, I'm unconscious and not for the first time in my life.
I have a pretty good tolerance to pain, have ever since the first time the Cruciatus curse was cast upon me, and it became greater when I first cast the curse. Sure it was an unforgivable, but in war, sometimes you have to do unforgivable things. If torturing an enemy resulted in information, sometimes it had to be done. It was one way I had found the location of a horcrux, even if the horcrux had been moved to a different location.
I woke up and realized I was on a ship of some kind, I glance down and breath a sigh of relief as my clothes are still on, the time has not run out yet. I quickly check my pockets for my wand. I suddenly stand up as I realize I don't have my wand. Sure I can do a little wandless magic, but it is nowhere near as powerful if I had my wand. I do a bit of wandless magic giving me another half hour or so before my clothes turn back to rocks, I needed the wand, hopefully I would have it by then.
Wait, ship? I look over the edge and do indeed see water, this of course brings up more unpleasant memories. I shake them away, before they come. I hear the waves and wince as the sound causes pain in my head. I slowly begin breathing and the pain lessens. I don't have my wand, so I can't do much of anything, my weapon is gone.
I look around and notice my surroundings, Tidus lying on the ground unconscious next to me, ocean, ocean and….ocean. Nothing but ocean, Neville would be getting sea sick about this time, he always did hate the sea. No land for miles around, or at least from what I can tell. A moan from Tidus catches my attention and I turn around. Tidus is beginning to stand up, and winces as a glare by one of our captors makes his head hurt. It probably wasn't the glare so it was probably the sound of the waves. The man walks over to him and hits him over the back sending him down.
"Ced, lybdeja." The man growls it looks like number one.
"Hey, that hurts!" Tidus said, falling backwards. The man just stands there, before speaking again in an equally harsh tone, or what I think is a harsh tone, it is kind of hard to tell.
"Hu sujehk, rayn?"
Tidus seems stunned and then nods before saying something stupid.
"Whoa...okay." he says, turning towards me. "They giving you the same treatment?"
"No." I stifle a laugh as the guy hits Tidus again. I have to admit it is quite funny. I look past Tidus and his new friend and see the girl who tricked me, and another tall guy, taller than the girl and with a blonde Mohawk.
"Caynlr res!" The guy with the Mohawk says, Tidus just stares. He then turns to me. "oui ihtancdyht ic nekrd?" I look at him blankly.
"E's cunno E tuh'd cbayg ouin myhkiyka." I say, then shake my head, wrong words again. "I don't understand your language, can you speak English?" The guy with the Mohawk and the girl look at me and then each other. They whisper something to each other so I can't hear. Tidus is trying to have a conversation with Number 1.
"Lyh oui keja sa pylg so fyht?" Once again the gibberish comes out. "I don't know what's wrong, I keep speaking gibberish. Sorry. I asked if I could have my wand back?" The man looks at me and then turns to Tidus, the girl continues to stare at me. It's a bit unnerving.
Caynlr res!" the man shouts again. Realizing he is getting nowhere speaking he begins to make a series of strange motions with his arms. The way he is moving his arms back and forth, I can only think that it has something to do with swimming. Tidus just stares, a dumbfounded look on his face.
"Right. Whatever." He says glancing at me.
The man walks up to Tidus, gesturing even more. Tidus just doesn't seem to be getting it.
"Tu oui hud cbayg!" The Mohawk man says shoving Number 1 out of the way. He pulls out a necklace and is now gesturing to it. Tidus seems annoyed, the man also seems annoyed, I'm not sure who will crack first. Tidus or Mohawk Man. If you were in some strange place and couldn't understand the language, you'd be annoyed too. Tidus snaps first.
"I said I don't understand!" he goes about waving his arms in the air near the man, Number 1 points his gun at him apparently seeing the action as a hostile gesture. I notice Scar in the background smirking. I couldn't help but feel anger at him.
"Ehcumahla! Ev drana icavim drao lyh cdyo." Mohawk Man cries before the girl jumps into the conversation.
"Fyed!" The girl yells causing Mohawk Man and Number 1 to stop what they're doing. I notice Scar head inside the ship in disgust. "He said you can stay if you make yourself useful."
Tidus blinks, and I'm almost positive I did too. She can speak English? This was a surprise. Tidus got over the shock first.
"You...you understand me?" he says, right before Number 1smacks him in the back of the head with the gun. "All right, I'll work!" he yells, annoyed at being hit so many times. I shake my head, and begin to walk over to Tidus and the girl, she looks at me.
"Are you going to help too?" She asks me, I nod.
"Yes, can I have my wand back?" I ask, I don't really want to cause problems and make enemies after only being here a little bit.
"Um. Wait a minute, I'll talk to you soon. First I need to teach you two how to use the sphere grid!" The girl says excitedly pulling out a rather interesting device. Out of her pockets she pulls out two rectangular objects, and I raise an eyebrow questioningly. I have no idea what she is talking about. She hands one to each of us and begins to explain.
"This is what is known as a Sphere Grid. A Sphere Grid is a device that almost all Spira citizens own." I now have a name. "A Sphere Grid contains a lot of magic power, it is where the people of Spira draw their magic energy from. Once activated the Sphere Grid will attach itself to your wrist."
"Like a watch?" I asked, both Tidus and the girl looked at me.
"I have no idea what a watch is. Where was I? Oh yes. The Sphere Grid attaches itself to your wrist once activated, and you will be able to continue powering it up for as long you want, each time you want to add to it, you place spheres on top of it and in your mind a diagram of your Sphere Grid will open allowing you to choose what you want to strengthen. All Sphere Grids are different from one another, just like no people are alike. It will begin developing as you fight. Sometimes, when you kill a fiend, they'll drop little spheres that represent different things, these are the spheres that go into the Sphere Grid."
"Fiend?" I ask perplexed.
"You know that monster we fought. That was what is known as a fiend, almost all animals and creatures seen in Spira are fiends. Once a fiend is killed it will dissolve into pyreflies and leave behind items or a sphere."
"Oh." I said surprised, it still did not answer how fiends came to be, but I had enough information.
"Back to the Sphere Grid, the spheres represent different things, examples include Strength, Mana, and some include keys needed to unlock special abilities. When you find one you press the button on the right, right here." She pointed to a little black knob on the device. It also has a built in map and inventory, those are used by pressing the two buttons on the left. The red one is a map, the green one is inventory, and the third is magical items. Back to the black knob once it is clicked place the sphere on the Sphere Grid and a map of the Sphere Grid will appear. You see these four hands? These are used to move on the Sphere Grid. For example, I will ask you both to move up one space."
I did so, and looked at what it was on, agility, for Tidus it was strength.
"Now you see the white button directly above the black? Good. Press it now." The space soon went from a dull grey color to yellow, Tidus went to red. As soon as it happened I felt my body moving faster, all the organs working quicker, and reaction time, speeding up, I think my brain was becoming smarter.
"That, that was amazing!" I said in astonishment. "I feel so much more agile than ever before."
The girl smiled and nodded. "See you're getting it already. And as long as you have it attached to your wrist, you can get the effects from what you've done. Well blonde how are you doing?"
"Great! I feel stronger than before!" Tidus said happily.
"Good, good. Now I need to speak with this one here, the man to your left will help you get ready for the dive."
"Dive?" Tidus asked, but was soon dragged away by Number 1.
"So is this about my wand?" I asked the girl who nodded.
"Among that and other things."
"Other things? Like what?"
"Well first off what is this weapon you call a wand?"
"It is my focus for my magical powers. I need it. It is my only protection in this world.
"In this world? What do you mean by that? Are you saying you're from another world?" She asked me looking at me as if I was crazy. I realized then that I couldn't very well and say the truth, it would be devastating.
"Um. Did I say that? NO. You must have miss heard me, I said whirl, I'm from a different whirl. You know place?" I said hoping she would buy it, thankfully she did.
"Oh, I see. Here's the deal Brother says you can have your wand back-."
"You can tell Brother thank you." I said happy to have my wand with me again.
"You didn't let me finish. Brother said you can have your wand back if you help us with this dive. If you are helpful, then you will get it back after I ask a few more questions. You do anything wrong and you will be sorry."
"So I don't get my wand back unless I help?" I asked preparing to show two things, my trustworthiness and my power.
"Yes, I'm sorry."
"No problem." I said raising my hand, my wand came flying strait to my hand from wherever they had locked it away. I caught it effortlessly. The girl stared at me in both surprise and fear. Then it turned into total shock as I handed my obtained to her hand.
"What…how?" She sputtered.
"I'm a wizard, sorcerer, or I believe you call me a mage here. Here you hold onto this, this should show my trustworthiness. I don't really trust Scar." She looked at me questioningly and nodded. She put the wand in her pocket and zipped it tight.
Laughing I smiled at her and turned around. It was then that I collapsed into unconsciousness, someone was happy, and when the certain someone connected to him was happy, it meant that hundreds of others were not.
A/N: There you have it, my longest chapter yet, and trust me it will have longer and shorter chapters in the following years to come. I hope to have this story complete by the end of the year, if not sooner. Already you can see different things, seeing that a lot of this chapter is in al-bhed. I would recommend searching for an al-bhed translator on the web, they are relatively easy to find, this is for translation, but it is not needed (would help). Some of you may wonder why Harry is speaking al-bhed this will be explained later in the story. I hope you enjoyed please read and review. Also don't forget to vote, or add suggestions.
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FF10(X)
FFX-2
Wormtail AU HP (decided)
Prequel (unnamed)
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Lord of the rings
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