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Disclaimer: Harry Potter? Nope! Not mine! And the mumble jumble of certain elements have been fished from RPGs and anime. Kudos to their creators. Enjoy!

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Ch. 3: The Mission

The ancient man continued speaking to the teenagers: "You will visit several places and find different fragments. These fragments will each have what we call summon magic. To find the summon magic fragments you will use this scanner."

Harry took the scanner and inserted it into his goggles. It became one with them. "Perfect. I see that you can use magic without having touched a magic sphere yet. You remind me of Al, young Harry." Harry looked a bit flushed and the Elder smiled. "Don't be embarrassed. As I was saying, these fragments can become one, which will be the greatest summon magic of all, the ultimate summon creature. You will be able to use it then, but getting all of the fragments won't be easy. I will also provide you with another scanner. This one will scan enemies, fiends, monsters, beasts. You will be able to learn your enemies' weaknesses." The Elder gave this scanner to Luna and she merged it with the cuff that covered her right wrist and stared at it with her protuberant gaze before smiling at the Elder. "There will be sometimes when the scanner won't work because some enemies and creatures have shields against anyone detecting their weaknesses. Be very careful when that happens, my young ones." The old man had what looked like a third scanner in his hand. "This scanner will tell you who to trust. In other words, it detects beings that are not enemies. Like the fiend scanner, sometimes it won't work because some beings in this world don't like to be detected. Be wary and careful about who you trust. When Al came here he trusted all of his allies very much, but one betrayed them. It almost cost Al his life and if it wasn't for his other allies..." The Elder lowered his face and shook his head before giving the scanner to Neville. Like Luna he merged it with his right cuff. "Be very careful and always study your allies. Appearances can be deceiving. Now I will tell you your real mission."

Neville looked alarmed: "You mean there's more? I thought it was vanquishing the excess monsters and looking for the summon magic!"

The Elder laughed and Samiria did the same, but suddenly both frowned. "No, child. The fiends and the scattering of the summon magic are a result of the real evil that has risen. After more than one hundred years we have a new dark lord, a very powerful one. The dark emperor that Al defeated to rescue princess Marina more than a century ago was nothing compared to this one. This one is an extremely powerful sorcerer and he is stealing the children in all of our cities. He has also killed many of the children's parents. He is enslaving the children beceause he grows powerful with their youthful energy. He has become greedy and wants more and more as a daily supply. We don't know what he is doing exactly with the children as after they disappear they are never seen again. We think he has them somewhere in his realm, maybe in deep sleep to consume their energy. No one has been able to come back alive to give us a report. Please save our children. Bring them back." The Elder bowed in front of the teens and they looked at each other, shocked. The Elder looked at Samiria. "Samiria, give them the skills and the first summon fragment."

The dark skinned woman fetched a box and brought it. They noticed that it had several shining white orbs, the size of ping pong balls. Samiria spoke to them: "Simply place your hand above the box. The orbs will choose their owners and will be absorbed into your bodies. You first, Harry." Harry did as instructed and several orbs went into his hand disappearing into his palm. He felt a huge warmth flowing inside him and suddenly could see different skills and magic in his mind that he knew he could easily perform. Right after Harry, Neville did the same, and then Luna. No more orbs remained in the box and Samiria put it away. Then she brought a diamond shaped object. It was between intense yellow and orange, but sometimes it became reddish. "This is your first summon fragment. I need you three to extend your hands and the summon fragment will choose its owner." The three teens extended their hands with unsure expressions and the diamond started to float. It suddenly landed on Harry's right hand and spinned on it before floating again and aiming into Harry's heart. Harry gasped when the fragment pierced his heart entering his chest, falling backwards. Neville caught him just in time before yelling.

"HARRY!" The chubby boy then looked at Samiria with a frightened gaze and the woman smiled.

"He'll be fine."

She was right. Harry coughed a bit and straightened himself. "What the hell was that?"

"The summon fragment has become one with you, Harry. Don't worry, when the time comes to make the ultimate summon that fragment will abandon your body to unite with the others. Now I will provide you with items. Some will be free, but other items will cost you. Here." The woman showed the different potions and they took some and placed them in their sacs. Luna paid for the other items that weren't free.

The Elder approached them yet again. "One last thing, young ones. I want you to do a recording for me." The three teens raised eyebrows and the old man showed them what looked like a silver pyramid. "This is Al's. I wanted to show it to you."

Harry was extremely curious about this and let the ancient play the recording. The old man pushed a button and suddenly an image appeared above the pyramid. It showed a young boy with messy auburn hair that fell everywhere on his face even when he had most of it obviously tied in a ponytail. The boy definitely had long hair and he had amazing bright blue eyes that somehow reminded Harry of someone, but he couldn't figure who. The boy looked excited and asked: "Is it working?" They heard someone reply with a 'yes' and the boy giggled. "Oh! Alright! Ahem! Name's Al. Yes, just Al. I'm a Hogwarts' student. Well, what's my story? I escape Hogwarts several nights a week to watch the unicorns in the Forbidden Forest. Yes, I know this is forbidden, but I like watching them. I have also befriended the centaurs if you can call what I have earned friendship..." The boy laughed and continued. "One night I was going after one of the unicorns. I'm sure it was a male adult and I really really wanted a hair froms its tail, but they move so fast! Further into the forest there was a clearing. It seems that the forest has several clearings. I'm still not sure. The thing is that after the unicorn disappeared I saw something that it had apparently dropped somehow. It was a very beautiful stone, this one." Al showed the stone in the image recording. "When I picked it up everything went white and suddenly I was here in this world. I still don't know what happened, but I have a mission to rescue a princess from this evil emperor. I hope everything will go smoothly and I'll be able to return to Hogwarts soon. That's all!" The boy gave a big smile and the recording stopped. Al had certainly looked energetic, thought Harry.

The old man brought a similar pyramid and the three teens recorded their introductions, how they had gotten there, and their mission. The Elder seemed very pleased with this. Afterwards, they left without Samiria. They were now on their own.

Harry looked at his companions and asked sarcastically. "Didn't that sound familiar? A dark lord to vanquish?"

"Eerily, yeah. I thought the same," replied Neville.

"Another Voldemort," said Luna in a dreamy voice and seemingly daydreaming. Harry felt strange when she actually said the name. She looked at him. "So we have to save children... Find fragments... Use your goggles to know where to find a fragment of summon magic." Harry nodded and pressed a button on his black goggles. He could see images immediately as if they were in front of his eyes. It was a complete map and he was able to see that the closest fragment was in a cave inside a forest that was near them.

"Let's go. We have to enter the forest," he motioned to the other two and they followed him.

The teens walked for a while before encountering their first fight after being equipped. The fiends were a flying gargoyle like creature, a giant black monster with tentacles, and a wolf. Harry spoke to his friends. "Neville, you take the flying one. Luna, go for the wolf. I'll deal with the one with tentacles." Neville, with perfect aim, shot at the gargoyle, but the creature retaliated by slashing him on his chest. Neville yelped in pain, but Luna created a white wave and sent it in Neville's direction, curing him instantly. The boy got up and shot again, this time finishing the gargoyle. Luna attacked the wolf with her staff and the creature bit her left arm, but she attacked again destroying it. Then she cured her arm. Harry had started attacking the tentacled monster with his sword, but the monster was very strong. It hurt Harry several times with its tentacles and Harry felt himself weakening fast before figuring that he was poisoned. "I've been poisoned!" He managed to say and Luna used a green wave on him that replenished his health and it was like an antidote at the same time. "Thanks!" Harry then decided to test the summon fragment. He felt that he could for some reason and extended his sword upwards swinging it, channeling the summon like this. He called the summon's name: "Fenghuang! I need your help!" A giant fiery bird was focused through the sword coming out of its tip and it attacked the giant black fiend burning it to a crisp in seconds. Then the bird came back to Harry, singing a beautiful song that reminded him of Fawkes and entered his body through his chest yet again.

Neville had his eyes wide: "That was bloody awesome, Harry! It looked like a phoenix, but a bit different at the same time!"

Harry nodded: "It was some kind of phoenix. It's... beautiful."

"How did you know his name?" asked Luna.

"I don't know... I felt it somehow." The other two smiled.

They continued through the forest having several encounters with different kinds of monsters. In some occassions the monsters were all terrain monsters and Neville fought with his hands and legs like Samiria had told him. He had an instinct of when to fight in close combat. Through the fights they also learned that Luna seemed to have all the curative magic. It was true that the orbs had chosen their owners. Harry had the elemental magic increased with the orbs as he already had it naturally. Neville had only two elementals, fire and thunder, amongst other magic.

Soon they found themselves close to the cave, but noticed a creature that moved really fast very close to it. "What was that?", asked Neville. "It moves awfully fast!" The boy activated his scanner, but it was unreadable. "Can't confirm it as non enemy. Luna!"

Luna used her scanner trying to follow the creature with it, but hers also was unreadable, except for one detail. "Can't read it either as a fiend, but it says that it's a dark creature."

Harry's gaze hardened. "If it's dark it must be an enemy."

Neville looked at Harry. "But it hasn't attacked us..."

The three got ready trying to follow the creature with their eyes, not losing it for one second. It kept going around them as if studying them. Suddenly it stopped and jumped to the top of the tree.

"How the hell did it do that?" asked Neville surprised. Harry kept looking at it with a glare and suddenly it jumped to another tree, then to another. It seemed to be looking at them again and it jumped towards Harry. Harry leapt back readying his sword in seconds, but the creature was really fast and tackled Harry pinning the teen to the ground. Harry lost his sword as it fell two feet from his right hand.

To the surprise of the three teens the creature asked: "Who are you? What are you doing in my territory?" Harry was able to free one of his arms from being pinned and forcefully removed the ninja like mask that covered the creature's face. In fact, the creature looked like the image Harry could remember of ninjas in his world. It was dressed in black ninja like clothing and even the mask had been the same, only leaving the eyes free, but the creature's eyes also had something similar to Harry's goggles, which Harry removed along with the mask, making the creature jump back. They found themselves looking at a boy that was probably not much older than them. The boy had wild and untamed long black hair down to his shoulders and looked Asian, but he had dark violet eyes. "Hey! Whaddaya do that for?"

Harry laughed. "You look less intimidating without these." He showed the boy the shades and the mask and the boy stuck out his tongue at Harry. "You also seem very immature..." Neville and Luna also laughed.

"This is my territory. Get out!"

"What are you? The scanner says dark creature, but you look human..." blurted Luna surprising Neville and Harry.

The boy seemed taken aback by what Luna said and frowned. "They call me a dark creature, but I harm no innocents, only fiends. The reason is this." The boy produced fangs that scared the hell out of Neville, who got behind Harry.

Neville suddenly said from behind Harry: "He is a vampire!"

The boy rolled his eyes and hid his fangs. Harry looked at him with a serious expression. "How come you don't harm innocents if you're a blood consuming creature?"

The ninja like boy raised an eyebrow before stating: "I'm allergic to human blood so I cannot consume it. Happy now?"

Harry seemed relieved and holding back a laugh. "Never heard of a vampire allergic to human blood..."

"Are you making fun of me?" asked the boy hardening his gaze, but Harry shook his head with a smile. "Good! Name's Janryu! Eighteen years old. What are your names?"

The three teens introduced each other too, but were still unsure about the person they had encountered, especially after learning that he was a vampire. Harry simply stated: "There is something we have to look for inside that cave. Can we invade your territory for a while longer until we get what we came here for?"

Janryu sat on the ground Indian style as if in deep thought and suddenly jump into a standing stance: "Alright, but under one condition." Harry gave him a questioning look and the vampire boy answered: "I want you guys to take me with you. I'm... bored here."

Neville looked nervous, but Luna smiled. Harry thought for a minute before nodding. "Okay, but you should know that we are on a dangerous journey."

Janryu smirked all of a sudden before he suddenly produced in his hands several knives and threw them at Harry, but the knives missed Harry by inches destroying a plant fiend that was behind the teen with the goggles. Harry looked back slowly and saw the plant fiend evaporating and looked back at Janryu and smirked too. "Welcome to our group. I see you're a knife thrower. I just thought you were going to kill me." Janryu smirked yet again and made a feigning innocence gesture.

Right after that they had two fights with fiends before finally entering the cave. In the cave the four started to have many fights and Janryu proved himself very useful as there were many flying monsters. Knife throwing with shots from Neville's guns were the most used, while Harry used elemental magic and Luna limited herself to cure them when needed. They quickened their pace through the cave and on several occassions Harry used the map in his goggles to guide them to the fragment until they finally got to the room where it was. Everything was very quiet and they saw the brownish diamond floating in the air. The three Hogwarts' teens approached it and extended their hands and the diamond jumped into Neville's hand making the others lower their own. The diamond spinned and then inserted itself in Neville's chest, but at the same time an earthquake started and they found themselves facing a giant monster that looked like a Chimera.

The giant Chimera was very quick and gave Harry a terrible blow with its tail that sent him flying against a wall right after Harry struck it in vain with his sword. Harry slumped to the floor leaving a trace of blood on the wall that was coming from his head. The monster then threw fire at Luna, who barely managed to dodge. Janryu threw some knives at the monster, but with its arm the chimera sent Janryu flying like it had previously done with Harry and then sent a spell at Luna that paralyzed her. Janryu seemed unconscious, but not bleeding like Harry was.

Neville looked terrified, guns trembling in his hands, as the Chimera launched an attack on him. He managed to dodge and shoot at the monster without causing a scratch on it to his horror. His eyes went wide as the Chimera lunged against him yet again.


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