Candidate Rebirth
AN: anybody wonder how that have one year a night up in astronomy tower, but there are 7 years and 5 school nights?
AN2: Looks like nobody wants Chloe to face Petunia and call her the ultimate freak.
Chapter 9: First day of classes.
"... Hufflepuff!"
There was silence, then two houses started laughing, and mocking her. This was because she went into the house that more than half the school considered the 'leftover' house.
the Ravenclaws were disappointed that they couldn't grill the candidate for info, at least as easily and with direct access. They would have to pin her down later.
The Hufflepuff's were ecstatic on the other hand. They rarely got such a high profile person. Many doubted the goddess candidate thing though.
To be fair to them, so did over ninety-nine percent of the school.
Also to be fair, both Chloe and Vert were hoping this to be the case, to give Chloe a chance at a relatively normal childhood, well beyond her duties of course.
A little uncomfortable with the fact that she was being mocked for loyalty and hard work, she let out a bit of her power.
The hall went silent as she emitted, just for a moment, enough magic to intimidate Dumbledore. And she was still holding back much of her power.
There were still mocking thoughts of the students, but her obvious power made them leery of taking direct action, or mocking her openly.
Who knows how long that will last?
Chloe looked at the food that appeared with distaste, so did CC. They started looking for stuff that wasn't too greasy, or over cooked. They found more than enough, although the quality was far less than the two were used to, well what CC was used to when spending the night at the basilicom.
Soon enough the meal came to an end, and Dumbledore made his announcements, the fact that dementors were set up to patrol around the castle, and that there was a new defense against the dark arts professor.
Soon the students were dismissed after a horrendous rendition, of an even more horrendous song.
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In the basements, the Hufflepuff house met, and entering was as simple as walking through the door, if you were of that house. as soon as a student was sorted in the house their magical signature was taken, and the student would be allowed entrance.
The Hufflepuff common room was tastefully done in yellow and black, with the shades of yellow being muted so that it wasn't overly bright.
A portly woman was waiting for them when they entered, and began the welcoming speech, "Welcome new students, and bodyguard! My name is Professor Sprout, and I'm both the Head of Hufflepuff, and Professor of Herbology. Out house had rooms that fit two in each one, three if you don't mind being cramped. This is to allow you a chance to be friends, and to provide a semblance of privacy.
Now in other news, three years ago, Professor Dumbledore set up a game-room with devices from Gameindustry, and this has had a great effect on grades and behavior. If you don't behave, or keep your grades up, we will ban you, either until your grades improve, or a certain amount of time. I will be even harsher on you than the other professors, be warned."
Chloe wasn't disturbed, by the thought of being banned, after all she was her sister's sister, she had her personal state of the art system, computer, and TV, as well as a miniature magitech generator. All a hundred years ahead of the cheap units the headmaster purchased.
Chloe and Cyberconnect2 ended up, as they expected, sharing a room, after all, a 'bodyguard' that is forced to stay in a different room, isn't a very efficient one.
Both set up their gear, counsels, computers, and generator to keep everything working. Then Chloe cracked open her books, to read the first couple of chapters.
She didn't know what classes she had the next day, so she wanted to be prepared.
She fell asleep drooling into the history book.. it was just too boring and irrelevant to her nation.
Cyberconnect2 chuckled and put her to bed, and then turned in herself.
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They woke up the next day at five am, and headed outside to practice. Only to run into their head of house.
"And where are you two going?" She asked.
"Practice and sparring, so we don't get rusty," came Chloe's reply.
Sprout was about to reply, and then she stopped. Taking a good look at the book wielding candidate, she realized something.
"Cyberconnect2 isn't a bodyguard is she?" came Sprout's slow reply.
Cyberconnect2 shook her head, "I'm more her partner. I cover her weaknesses since they are my strengths, bodyguarding is my job in only the sense that I'm her backup and a second set of eyes."
Sprout closed her eyes, and sighed. The thought of such a young girl learning the art of war to the point that she practices daily didn't sit right with her, but with a motion she indicated that the two could go.
Ten minutes later blades and spells were being exchanged. Cyberconnect2 wasn't lieing when she said her strengths were Chloe's weaknesses. She was physically faster and stronger than Chloe, but the fact that Chloe could use her easier spells without a chant allowed her to score some hits.
Three hours later, the two walked in to get breakfast. Much of the conversation in the great hall stopped upon witnessing the two, dirty and bruised, with torn clothing, but not in anyway that compromised decency, and acting like it was nothing special as they took their seats to eat breakfast.
After everybody recovered, there was a lot of sneering at the two, and muttered insults. After all it looked like the two had been in some sort of physical confrontation.
Looking at the schedule, she noted she had potions first thing, and then history of magic. It seemed to be a very short schedule, as the classes would take about three or four hours total, leaving the rest of the day free.
The regular schools in Gameindustry would have between six and eight hours of classes a day, especially Gameindustry Academy, which Chloe convinced her sister to convince the other goddesses to reopen as an elite school, and to expand it to include a military officer school.
The militaries of the four lands have never been more at peace with each other in joint military operations... nor as fiercely competitive in the biyearly war games.
Anyway, back to the patiently waiting... or not so patently waiting as she had already headed off to potions while the author went on his tangent.
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Potions had started and the professor had just finished praising the subject, and hitting the students with questions nobody could answer since they were from further on in their education.
Then he put the burn salve recipe on the chalkboard, and set them loose.
He looked at how Chloe and CC were looking at the cauldron wari
ly, and suddenly had a bad feeling.
It was worse than Longbottom.
His feeling was vindicated as Chloe pored the water into the metal container... and the water came alive in the form of water tentacles that started attacking the clothes of anybody that came close to it. Fortunately the students scattered as they realized it. It was also fortunate, due to Chloe's actions, that nobody had gotten past their first ingredient.
A rapid stream of firebolts not only evaporated the water but melted the cauldron into slag.
Snape looked at the cooling metal, opened his mouth, closed it, thought a second, and then said, "Chloe, get out of my class, come back at seven pm to clean up your metal. You are also banned from class, I will give your head of house the written assignments, and I expect them to be done on time, and turned in to your head of house. now get out."
Chloe and Cyberconnect2 left the room with their heads held high... then ran as every cauldron around her came to life, followed by every other student and the professor.
The professor cast fiendfire at the room, thankful that everything in their was easily replaceable, to eliminate the newly spawned monsters.
Turning to where the girls had vanished he glared, and vowed to make sure she was banned from the dungeons entirely.
She wasn't in his house anyway, so it should be easy enough.
He liked the girl, but he wasn't willing to put up with her ability to screw up potions that badly.
Her eyes looked so familiar though.
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Hours passed and then it was history of magic.
Both of the other dimensioners were out like a light within five seconds of the professor's voice. If it was Gameindustry history they would've paid attention, or at least tried, but this world's history is irrelevant to them.
At the end of the class Chloe was woken by one of her housemates' and she woke Cyberconnect2, and they went on their way.
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On their way out from history, they met the redhead from the train again. He was upset that she had 'lied' to him, by not telling him that she was the one she was looking for.
He decided to have some payback, and have a 'feel' of his 'fiancee'.
He grabbed her chest, and while she was so chocked by his audacity, he gave her a kiss.
Unfortunately, for him at least, she recovered quickly, pushed him back, and threw a punch.
Now while her strength growth rate was only a C rank, she was level forty, facing a level three, and as such her punch, which she managed at the last second to lower the power, was still enough to shatter his jaw, and have him make an impression in a nearby wall, and break five ribs, as well as give him a concussion.
Through bleary pain filled eyes he looked at the candidate whom was thunderous in fury.
Her arm slowly came up and a fireball appeared in it, she was about to launch it when a old but still strong voice sounded behind her.
"What is going on here?" the voice said.
The fireball guttered out as Chloe turned to the voice.
Upon seeing Dumbledore Chloe explained, "This asshole molested me, and when I was stunned by his actions kissed me."
Dumbledore's face darkened, and said, "so you were going to kill him?"
Chloe took a deep breath, and snarled, "if he was willing to do this, how long until he tried to do more?"
Dumbledore looked at the pissed off face of the candidate, and replied in a soothing way, "I take it his current condition is due to your initial reaction?" at Chloe's nod he continued, "We will leave that as his punishment for now, and I will explain to him, that if he attempts it on anybody else, he will be expelled, his wand snapped, and his magic bound. You will have a single detention with me, tonight, since I have some questions for you. The password is gummy worms."
Chloe was about to say something, probably unnecessarily hurtful, when CC put her hand on her shoulder. "That's fine sir, but we will be contacting Lady Green Heart and having him banned from Leanbox upon pain of death. And keep him away from Chloe, since they are in different years and houses he really doesn't have an excuse to be near her."
the old man nodded, and levitated the boy, while heading towards the hospital wing. When the boy wakes up he will be having a stern talking to, and he will be telling is mother about his actions.
He didn't know it, but that decision would ruin any chance of the Weasely's being allies with Chloe.
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Dumbledore walked back to his office, after leaving instructions with Pompfry to not let the boy out until he spoke to him tomorrow, and was surprised at the pissed looking werewolf at his office door holding a newspaper.
He put young Ronald out of his mind, the boy was still in the second year, despite the fact that he should be in fourth. He was finally maintaining a grade average that would allow him into third year.
He had half an hour until Chloe was supposed to arrive so he waved the man in after he gave the gargoyle the password.
After they entered the office and Dumbledore sat down, threw a silencing spell at the door, and then Lupin threw the paper in front of the desk.
Curious, he opened it, and paled, it was an old paper, and on the front page was the story of a murdered green eyed child.
"Explain," the werewolf said.
The old man sighed, and spoke, with a voice laden with regret, "I made a mistake. I had used powerful protections, protections that required Harry to live with a relative, and he had only one living one. I was just not expecting them to kill him, or allow him to die. I can't say much, but I can say that he was reborn, with all Harry's memories, but I promised not to tell anybody who the new person is."
"And the reason why you wouldn't tell me where he was? I would've checked on him, and told you if he was being abused."
"I had somebody there, but she didn't report that it was too bad."
Remus's eyes narrowed as he locked on to two words, "Too bad? TOO BAD!? You mean you knew he was being abused?!"
"It was the only way to guarantee his safe..."
"SAFETY? Being abused is not SAFE!" came the interruption.
"If you would let me explain, I was led to believe that it was just swats, and mean words. I later found out by asking the source that it was much worse!" came the man's hot headed response, "and I didn't tell you because I thought it would make his treatment worse if you kept dropping by!"
The two men glared at each other only to turn to the door as it opened.
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Chloe, whom had calmed down from murderous rage, to merely annoyed, looked in the room, and noticing the very angry men said, "I can come back tomorrow if you want."
Dumbledore shook his head and looked at his professor, "Can we continue this tomorrow? I will try and get permission to tell you later. I am very sorry about what happened, and if I had known just how bad it was, he would've been removed immediately. How she called broken bones 'minor boo-boos' I don't know."
The other man nodded thoughtfully and left.
"Now Chloe, we need to talk about today, I understand you are stronger than Humans," he paused at how Cyberconnect2 turned her chuckle into a cough, but then continued, "but you need to remember that as well and hold back, a little bit more and you would've killed him, not to mention the fireball you were about to hit him with."
Chloe leaned back in her chair until it was on two legs and replied offhandedly, "I did hold back, well at the last minute. If I had hit him full force, I would've torn his jaw right off. And the firebolt wouldn't have killed him, neutered him yes, killed no."
Dumbledore paused as he digested the information. He then uprated the girl's danger level upwards.
His musings were disrupted as Chloe continued, "and as to being stronger than humans? CC here is much stronger physically than me, my Strength growth is rated a C hers is an A, and it's an absolute scale, applicable to both humans and goddesses. She's also twenty levels higher than me, which makes her even stronger. She was chosen to be my permanent guild partner for two reasons, one is that her strengths cover my weaknesses, and the fact that she is highly trusted."
The old man went nearly transparent. He had simply assumed that this Cyberconnect2 was simply for companionship, as a goddess candidate he thought that she wouldn't need protection, but if the other female is stronger... another thought hit him, "what are these levels, and what is mine?"
"Levels are a measure of strength, and tend to increase the most from going out and fighting, we generally fight and kill monsters. Training can increase it as well, but at a much slower rate. The stronger the opponent, the more you gain towards your next level. Your level is twenty-five," Chloe answered offhandedly.
Dumbledore sighed, he had let two people into his school, that apparently was much stronger than him, but at least don't seem to be causing much trouble... intentionally.
"Now there is one more issue, it's about what you did to that dementor."
"Sacred lance, a holy element spell I discovered in the basilicom archives. It looked useful, so I learned it," Chloe explained.
"Could you teach it to others?" came Dumbledore's question.
Chloe giggled as she responded, "No, not at this school, it would kill anyone under level twenty-eight by the strain it put's on their body, and that's if they have my level of magical potential which is S for skill points, what I spend to use them, and S for Intelligence, aka magical power."
Dumbledore was disappointed, a way to kill those things would be invaluable when Tom returns, but if it takes getting a large number to above Chloe's level it isn't practical.
The conversation continued, as he probed the laws of Gameindustry and discovered that he needed to warn whomever would be the ambassator that spells that are common here would be a death sentence there.
Specifically mental manipulation, and memory erasing spells. The laws were clear that such things, weather by technology or magic, were illegal in the extreme, beyond a few of what they call 'status effect' combat spells, and even then they are mostly used against monsters, and are very limited in duration.
Other crimes had worse punishment than he expected, but upon further reflection since the goddesses are female, executing rapists makes sense from their point of view. Premeditated murder was also an executable offense.
He thought the laws were harsh, but they were applied fairly. In fact Chloe expressed interest in veritaserum, a truth serum that would speed up trials immensely and allow great accuracy. She would Guess that an exception to the mind control laws would be made, allowing suspects to be questioned about their crimes.
It was late when the conversation ended, and the two were given a pass in case they ran into a professor, and set off for bed.
The next day would prove to be the nail in the coffin to having a good relationship with a red headed family.