Magical Photon
A Phantasy Star Online Harry Potter crossover.
I don´t own them, except Shawn, my PSO avatar.
Chapter 7
The train ride
The people at the station looked surprised at a boy.
Their attention wasn't focused on the boy, but rather on his companions.
Perched on his shoulders were a falcon and an owl.
Shawn showed no sign but he was well aware of the stares he got.
"Damn, I attract to much attention. I'll have to release the birds," he muttered to himself.
He walked outside and stroked the two birds.
"I attract to much attention with you, so you could you two go to the platform and wait for me?"
The birds chirped and flew away.
Shawn turned and entered the station again.
The stares had substantially lessened.
Shawn was about to enter the hidden gateway to the platform, when a redhead almost crashed into him.
"Watch out, will you!" the redhead called out, "I need to get to the platform."
Shawn glared, "even if I was wrong, you want to run into a brick wall?"
If Shawn hadn't compressed his stuff in a red block labelled 'Shawn's trunk', the redhead could have known that Shawn also was a wizard.
The redhead became nervous and backed off.
Shawn stuck out his tongue and went through the gate.
The redhead followed a little later.
"You are a wizard?" he hissed.
"Yeah, so?"
Then two redheaded twins came through the gateway.
"That was…" one began
"BRILLIANT!" the other finished, "nobody has ever annoyed Percy that fast."
"We must know your name!" they chorused.
Shawn smiled, "It is Shawn, Shawn Flame."
"My dearest Shawn, we are known as the pranksters of Hogwarts Gred and Forge Weasley."
"That's nice but if you'll excuse me, my pets are waiting for me."
Shawn let out a sharp whistle and held out his arms.
The two birds landed on them.
Shawn crossed one arm to his shoulder to allow the birds to perch on his shoulders.
The Weasleys look shocked as Shawn waved and entered the train.
The twins looked at each other and shouted "that was bloody awesome."
Shawn entered one of the compartments, his companions flew to the luggage racks and fell asleep.
Shawn crossed his legs and started to meditate.
He opened them when the door opened.
He noticed the train was moving
Another redhead appeared, "Can I sit here? The other compartments are full."
"Sure, but I am no chatty person."
"Oh, all right."
The door opened again, the twins smiled.
"Hey Shawn, I don't believe you met our brother Ronniekins." The other took over, "Anyway we're off, Lee has a tarantula."
"See you later."
Shawn smiled, "Guess I will."
As the twins departed, Ron looked at Shawn.
"I see you met the Fred and George."
"No, I met Percy, and annoyed him, the twins came later."
"I see."
Shawn started meditating again.
"What are you doing?"
Shawn sighed, "I am trying to meditate."
"Why?"
"I use it to focus my mind."
"Oh."
Shawn closed his eyes.
And opened his mind's eye.
The two scythes were in front of him.
They crossed each other and blurred.
A humanoid shape appeared.
It was an android, a purple one with glaring yellow eyes.
"Kireek?"
The android looked to him.
"No, we have assumed the form you are most familiar with."
"I see, I know you have your own conscience, as we battled when I grasped you in the vault."
"We propose a trade."
"What kind of trade?"
"You might have realised that you are special."
"Everybody is special, but I had the transporter accident."
"Yes, you were reborn as it were, you have gained the ability to wield all photonweapons."
"And you know this because?"
"Soulweapons are numerous, and linked with each other, through time and space, even to our counterparts."
"So you can communicate with your counterparts back on the Pioneer."
"Yes."
"All right, you mentioned a trade."
"The trade is that you get our knowledge and you can consult us."
"And what do you want in return?"
"In return we get partial control of your body."
"What!"
"When we are in control, your physical limits vanish. We can push your body to greater abilities."
"Like?"
"Your body would be faster, stronger and could fall from two miles and not be harmed."
"So actually you're proposing a coexistence of sorts."
"Yes."
"Could I forcefully take over, if you would do something I would like?"
"Yes, you could."
Shawn still looked unconvinced but held out his hand.
"I do not like this, but your knowledge is invaluable right now."
"Don't worry, you'll soon discover that you have made the right choice," 'Kireek' said as the android grasped the offered hand.
A blinding light was coming off the android.
"We are almost at the castle, you should end your meditation session."
Shawn opened his eyes.
Ron was looking out of the window.
"I believe we are almost there."
The boy jumped.
"You are awake?"
Shawn smiled, "I never was asleep, just lost in my thought."
"We should get dressed."
"Right."
A voice echoed through the train: "We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. Please leave your luggage on the train it will be taken to Hogwarts separately."
Shawn reached out to the two birds still on the luggage racks, who perched on Shawn's shoulders once again.
The train stopped some time later.
Shawn exited on a cold and small platform.
Suddenly a familiar voice call the first years over the heads of the students.
Shawn twisted his head to see the face of Hagrid.
"Hey, Hagrid!" he called.
"Hi there, Shawn, ye know most people only take one bird."
Shawn smiled, "But still I became quite attached to them."
He released the birds and let them fly to the castle.
"Anyway, is everybody 'ere? Follow me then."
The group followed the gamekeeper down a steep and narrow path.
Shawn looked at the back, he noticed that a girl had a slight problem maintaining her balance on the rocky road.
It looked like she had somehow twisted her ankle
He waited till most people had past him.
Shawn walked to the girl.
"Problems keeping up?"
The girl hissed as she put pressure on her foot.
"I think I sprained my ankle."
"I see, get on my back," Shawn said as he lowered himself.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, come on, we'll lose the group if we don't hurry."
The girl moved behind him.
Once she was seated securely, Shawn stood up and started picking up speed.
The duo rounded a corner to see the group enter boats on one side of a huge lake.
Shawn rushed to Hagrid.
"Hagrid, wait up!" he called, "damn, we not going to make it."
The boats started drifting to the castle.
Shawn skidded to a halt, "Damnit!"
The girl started to sob, "If you haven't helped me, you wouldn't be late."
"There isn't much we can do about it now. Let's find another entrance because I highly doubt that there is only one."
"Okay, I hope I am not being a bother."
"I'll manage, by the way I'm Shawn."
"Hermione Granger."
"Now that we have introduced ourselves, let's get going."
Shawn started to jog at a normal pace.
"Say, can you watch the castle for the end of the lake?"
"Sure."
"The last thing we need is that we going the wrong way."
Shawn turned his attention from the ground to the horizon.
He nudged Hermione, "I can see the beginning of the school grounds."
Hermione nodded, as Shawn began to pick up speed again.
"Damn, I should have kept at least one bird here," he berated himself.
Shawn sighed as he finally felt grass underneath his shoes.
"Well I have good news and bad news, the good news is that we're here," Shawn muttered to himself, "The bad news is that we're a few hours late."
He noticed that his 'guest' had fallen asleep as a result of the cold and the motion of his walking.
Shawn made his way to the castle doors.
He suddenly got a sense of danger.
He dashed out of the way as a tree-branch smashed the spot he just occupied.
Once he was sure that he was safe, Shawn turned.
The only thing he noticed was a tree, a branch had hit the ground.
Shawn looked as the branch moved up again.
"Great, a tree that fights back. Can things get worse?" he asked himself, "Wait, don't answer that."
"Well, well, what have we here?" a voice spoke behind him.
Shawn winced at his luck.
He turned to meet a man with a rather ugly cat.
"I see that two of the three missing students managed to get here."
"The girl sprained her ankle and I carried her, but we missed the boats."
"A likely story."
"Listen, we can discuss this later but right now I want to go in."
"Right," the man said, leading the Shawn and a (surprisingly) still sleeping Hermione inside Hogwarts.
A/N
Long chapter.
I hate Hagrid's voice, but I'm pretty confident on how it turned out.
I recieved a few reviews about Olivander.
I believe he's like the map, knowing every person entering his store.
But since Shawn has two identities,Olivander gets confused and unable to read Shawn.
I'll go back and revise the chapters to hold PSO information.
Keep the reviews coming.
And everybody have a nice 2006.