Chapter Three…
Harry's Childhood - Part 3!
(The Earth Mystic!)
25th of December 2007:
It was a few minutes after Harry left the Dursleys, and he was slowly calming down from his anger and surprise. After months of trying to learn and summon flames, or control existing flames, and getting nothing in return, it took a beating that could have ended his life to summon the fire he wanted. But at the same time he cursed himself for not being more careful, sure he wasn't sure when the Dursleys would have returned, but doing magic in the open where they could have seen it should they return sooner - that was foolish on his part.
'What's done is done,' Harry thought to himself as he walked down the street, 'there's nothing I can do about it now. Hopefully thanks to this I can get a better room out of this. If not? I could keep the threat and bash them into the walls until I get the new room, or I could threw a few new fireballs at them.' As he was thinking this, he had turned down an alleyway, where he tried and summon the flames to see if he was able to do so again - to make sure he can make that threat stick. Harry remembered what he felt when the fire first appeared, and after a few tries, he was able to summon the flames around his hands, where he smiled.
Harry's smile turned into a smirk as he thought about using his magic against his family, a few months ago he wouldn't have considered this, but now he was, and it was thanks to Lucy.
Over the last few months since she told him that he should become a supervillain, the two of them had been talking about it, and slowly Harry was actually considering it. Oh don't get him wrong, part of him still want to be a hero, but slowly but surely the darkness within Harry's heart - thanks to how people had treated him - the small light that was within him was fighting a losing battle.
Whilst Harry didn't know this, he still had conflated thoughts about this. It didn't help that he listened to his sister and do a few small crimes here and there, other than stealing food and drink, like stealing money from people, and other small crimes. The problem was that he enjoyed the thrill, doing something bad and getting away with it. Part of knew that he shouldn't, but he couldn't help to feel this way. However though, because of his conflated thoughts at the moment, anything of worth that he stole, he give to the homeless so they could use it to get some food and a roof over their head for a night - this really annoyed his sister that it made him chuckled.
Now as Harry was thinking about the last few nights, Lucy appeared next to him. As she appeared she saw the flames around Harry's hand, which made her very happy, this was the first step in getting Harry to learn hell-fire and demonic powers. She knew it would be a while before it would get together, but in time she believed it would happen. With a smile she said, "Harry you learnt to summon your flames, how and when did this happen?"
"Hey Lucy." Harry greeted with a smile, it is strange that Lucy at times would know what happened and at others she didn't. He didn't know if it was to make it so that she didn't come across as a know it all, or for some reason she didn't know what was going on. Whatever the case, it just made Lucy even more interesting and unsuspecting as he would never know what she would do or say next, nor what she knew. "Just got the flames not long ago, strangely I have to thank Uncle Vernon for it. I was careless, I was repairing Aunt Petunia's favourite vase that I broke by accident, when my so called Uncle spotted me and he lost it and begun to beat me. As he was beating me something snap within me and the flames came forth."
"The fucking asshole." Lucy said darkly, as Harry went red in hearing that. Sure he knew the words, and barely understand what they meant, but his sister would use them most of the time when she was upset or angry - he only used them a few time and only when he was really angry unlike Lucy. "But I have to agree though, although he is a fat asshole, I too would have to thank him for allowing whatever was blocking you to break and allow you to summon the flames. Now we only have to teach you how to control them. Not only that but see if you can learn another element, if possible the element Earth?"
"Whilst I'm not against the idea, why would you suggest learning to control Earth?" Harry asked curiously, "I could be learning other things too, and I still have to see if I can learn demonic powers too."
"You still can brother," Lucy began to explain, "but should you use your fire skills as a hero or a supervillain, and use your fire skills in everyday life, they might suspect you the hero or supervillain. Also if we are able to combine it with your fire ability we could have you do magma attacks, and other magma moves."
He saw news reports of lava or magma as it is sometimes called, it can be very destructive, more so than fire and earthquakes. To be able to learn them would be very useful if he was able to learn how to do earth moves, and then combine it with his fire attacks. Before he could ask more about this, or let some of his thoughts about what they could do with his skill, they heard screaming coming from the area of some abandoned buildings that were in the area. Wondering who was screaming, Harry ran off without thinking, as his sister tried and call him back.
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It was a few minutes later before Harry slowly got near to the abandoned buildings, he walked between the walls and the buildings in the hopes not to get caught. It wasn't long as he got to a clearing where he saw five people wearing strange armour, two of these people were surrounding a small figure on the ground.
The two that surrounded the girl wore robes that separate in three pieces. Lowest on their body was an long dress made of what looked like segmented leather, that one could assume was part of a chest piece as well. Next up was a loose white robe with wide brimmed sleeves that ended at their waist, complete with a hanging flag sporting a golden eye. Finally, and most importantly, their identity was hidden by a black hood with fanciful gold inlay that extended into a knee length cape. They also had a golden staff, which had a Crescent Moon holding a diamond in the centre on top of it.
The other three people wear some sort red fabric with silver trimmings, and over it they had silver plated armour and helmet, which had gold trimmings. Harry also saw that on the front of their armour they had a golden bird of some sort. On their backs each of these strange people carried a sword, that was nearly as long as they were tall, the grip was long enough for a two-handed grip, with an additional handhold placed in the middle of the blade several inches up from the pommel, exactly at the balancing point of the blade. The point was split like a serpent's tongue, with a deep channel running down the blade to allow for blood to flow without restricting the cutting ability of the blade.
Before he could do anything or think what was going on, Lucy came up to him and hit him around the head. Like he usually been able to, he felt the hit, and whispered in shock, "What was that for Lucy?"
"Why else? For running off like that, you don't know what is going on, you could run into trouble that could have gotten yourself hurt or worse killed." Lucy said sadly, frightened what could have happened to her brother, he was to die she would no longer be around and that frightened her even more.
"Sorry Lucy I didn't mean to -" began Harry as he turned to look at his sister, and to his shock saw she was beginning to flick in and out of existence. "Sister, what's happening to you?" Harry whispered in shock, taking everything that he had not to shout out and reveal that he was there.
"I, I don't know!" Lucy said in shock and fear as she look at herself, then suddenly feeling weaker than she ever felt. It was as if something was draining her energy, taking everything that is her. This frightened both Harry and Lucy, worried that Lucy would disappear, ever to seen again. "I feel weak, I don't know what is going on but I feel that I'm fading for some reason."
But before Harry could say or do something, he felt something going down his spine, as he turned round he saw the two people in hooded robes looking in his direction, as if they knew he was hiding there. Than one of those people in the silver armour, asked in a female voice, "What is it? Is there another heathen here Sentinels?"
There was a few strange clicking sounds coming from one of the people in the robes, which was now confirmed as something or someone known as a Sentinel. Once the clickings stop, the other person said darkly, in a males voice, "Is that so, a weak one? Even so, we cannot allow heathens go, go and get the heathen." And so the Sentinels begun to get closer to Harry.
"Harry get out of here!" shouted Lucy as she felt strange as these Sentinels got closer to her, feeling more weak as ever before. But Harry wasn't able to, as with each step the Sentinels got closer to him, Harry begun to feel weaker, and as he grew weak more faded Lucy became. It was like she was disappearing into nothingness, and that frightened Harry, the only person that ever been nice to him, cared for him begun to disappear in front of his eyes and there was nothing he could do about it. Harry could only stare at Lucy as she faded in and out of existence, before sister disappearing altogether.
Upon seeing his sister disappearing like that, something snap within him as he blacked out, something dark and dangerous seemed to awoke within him. At first it seemed to the Paladins that the young boy fainted, something not uncommon when a young magical heathen comes near to a Sentinel.
However though, the moment the Sentinels over Harry's body, his eyes snap open, to reveal they were deprived from emotion. Instead, if someone looked into them they would see the eyes were alight in green flames, some would say they were seeing the flames of hell. Seconds after Harry opened his eyes, his body was engulfed in flames and flamed up nearly burning the Sentinels if they didn't step back when they did.
As Harry stood up the Warriors of God were shocked, what they saw was nothing like they ever seen before. The aura around the young heathen screamed evil, more than any other heathen they ever seen. It was like the young boy was evil itself.
The three Paladins saw in shock as the evil incarnate summoned a fire ring around one of the Sentinels before they could run, where unholy screams could be heard as they were being slowing burned alive. The other Sentinel tried to escape, but was caught by a blot of flames coming from the evil incarnate and and turned to ash before they knew what happened.
As the Sentinel in the ring of fire was slowly been burnt, the young evil incarnate sent a wave of fire at them, making them to duck. Than the young boy sent flamed diggers at them which made them to dodge the attacks again. These Paladins won't prepared for this kind of attack, it was the reason for the Sentinels were there for, who right now were nothing but ash. They were there to upper hand the Earth Mystic once the Sentinels subdue the heathen, so the Mystic couldn't attack them, and so they could place a power submission collar on the heathen. It meant to be an easy find and capture mission, and so didn't need any weapons, they won't suspecting a fire wilder to come by. Seeing that they were outclassed and powered, the Paladins knew they needed to escape and report what had happened. Using a few powerful stun grenades, they threw them at the heathen leaving him stunned for a few moments so they could make their escape.
Once they were gone, it was like a tracker that turned whatever happened to Harry off, and Harry was on the ground out cold.
It was a few moments after the Paladins left, when the figure on the ground begun to stir. As the figure stood up, the person was revealed to be a young cute black girl. She looked to be an eleven years old, with plated dark red hair, she was Charlotte Brown. She was the Earth Mystic that the Mystic Council was looking for, as not only did she had the ability to control the Earth around here, but unlike the other Earth Mystics, she is able to make an underground tunnels/rooms, a mile to two miles underground. Which was why the Paladins and the Mystic Council was looking for her.
She had gotten her powers when she was only six years old, when her own father buried her into the ground because she could do strange magical things. Her father was a God fearing man, who believed in what the bible said, 'thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.' So upon seeing the magic she could do, he buried her alive in the middle of nowhere and left her for dead. It was then that her magic transformed, in fear she wanted to be able to control the Earth around her so that she could escape, to defend her - to live without fear. And like her powers was listening to her plea for help, she gained the control of Earth.
It took a few years to be able to control them, but over time she was able to master her new skills, but now she could do many things with them, even building underground tunnels/rooms. It was the way she lived since she learnt how to, to protect herself from being hurt or hunted by people like her father who called themselves Paladins. In her time living alone, she relied on no one, trusted no one, all that she trusted was her own powers which she use to steal food, drink and whatever else to survive life on the streets. She done many things to do so, things that a kid of her age shouldn't know about or think about doing.
The Paladins wasn't the only ones she had to avoid, there were a few groups, magical and non-magical. Sure she could have went with one of them, but she didn't know if she could trust them. From the magical groups she had heard one group talking about altering her memories so that she would forget what she could do, which because of this she kept herself away from such groups. As she didn't know if they were trusted not to do the same, or use her for their own gain. Which is why she didn't go near a group known as the Mystic Knights, where she heard them calling her a Earth Mystic. And the few non-magical groups that she came across, wanted to experiment on her.
Either way, over the years Charlotte learnt how to avoid capture and how to control her other skills other than her Earth abilities. She meet other people who used their powers to survive life on the streets, some were nice enough, whilst others only wanted her to control. In fact she was running away from a magical group that wanted to control her, when she had the misfortune to run into two Paladins and their Sentinels. They had just captured her, when she heard them talking about using her and others like her to get rid of her kind, as it would better using other heathens to fight their kind instead of risking their own people. The last thing she heard before blacking out because of the Sentinels was, "What is it? Is there another heathen here Sentinels?"
She didn't know how long she was out for, but when she came to, she felt a great heat, and the Paladins escaping without her. As the heat was dying down, she had wondered what had happened, why would the Paladins run without her? Not that she was complaining, she was happy they won't taking her with them. Over the next few minutes, she regained her strength and was able to get up, where she saw the reason for the Paladins running off.
She saw a young boy, who looked no older than five years or so with flames around him, flames that were dying down. As she looked at the young black haired boy, she had to wonder what happened. She knew the stories about the Paladins, and knew they don't often run away from a fight. So she had to wonder how such a young kid could make the Paladins run like that, and what happened to the Sentinels that were with them?
Whilst she didn't know what had happened, she did know one thing though, whatever happened, this young kid was somehow involved in saving her from the Paladins, who most likely have killed or used her in some way. She could leave him there like she would normally, but she couldn't do that to him, she after all owed it to the black haired kid to keep him safe and repay the debt for saving her. So levitating the young boy, she carried him to one of the areas that she had built her underground tunnels and dig herself and the young boy underground.
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It was a few hours later before Harry begun to come round, as he looked to see he was in a dimly lighted room. As he tried to remember what happened to him, and how he got there, when he moaned in pain, "Ahh my head, what happened to me."
"I would like to know that too," Harry heard a female voice from the far end of the room, which was darker end of the room, "when I came to I saw the Paladins escaping, you were out cold with flames dying out that was coming from you, with ashes from the Sentinels."
"Who's there? What are you talking about?" asked Harry, as he summoned a ball of fire in his hand, only to see a cute black girl sitting in a chair.
"So you really are a Fire Mystic," the young black girl said with a knowing smile, "I'm Charlotte Brown, I'm talking about what happened with the Paladins and the Sentinels."
"I'm sorry but what do you mean by that? I never heard of Fire Mystics, Paladins and Sentinels." Harry admitted to Charlotte, as he tried to remember what happened to him.
Brown wasn't too surprise that this young boy didn't know anything about them, it was only luck, bad or good depending how you would think of it, that she found out about them. And so she explained the little that she knew about them.
"So let me get this straight," Harry began thoughtfully, "there are these two groups the Mystics and the Paladins right?"
"Well they are other groups out there, but they are the two of the main groups out there that I know of." the ten year old explained.
Harry nodded in understand, he and Lucy had often thought about this before, wondering if there were magical groups out there or not. The Mystics and the Paladins were the first two that were confirmed to Harry to be out there. As he sat there, Harry wondered if these Mystics and Paladins were the ones that were following him, or if it was another group that was doing so.
"So these Mystics has a task force you could say called the Mystic Knights," Harry scoffed at the name, it sounded like some kind of old TV show or something, "who protect others like us from these Paladins and others like them. They also stop magical crime too. Right?"
"As far as I've been able to find out about them yes." replied Charlotte.
"And these Paladins, they are an anti-magic group that believes that only God should have such power." Harry said thoughtful. This group sound much like the Paladins in Jumper, where they believed that only God should have the skill to be anywhere at one time. "But yet these Paladins have these Sentinels who use some kind of anti-magic you could to stop us from using our powers, and are able to sense us too."
"I know it seem condescending as you say it like that," the cute black girl admitted thoughtfully, "but from what I've been able to find out, they used potions to give whatever powers they give these Sentinels. In the eyes of the Paladins, potions isn't really magic, but science, and in a way they are right, you take different ingredients and put them together to make something else - that's what scientists do every day to find and create new things. To them they are only using science to improve a person and giving them extra abilities."
Harry only scoffed at this, seeing how most true believers of god thought that science was evil, and most true believers don't have much to do with it. But then again, over the years Christianity has altered itself to fit into the world around it, to accept science into their lives.
Either way, getting back at point at hand, the young boy asked, "If these Mystics and Mystic Knights are ones meant to help like those like us, why aren't you with them?" Harry suspected with his surroundings, he had a gut feeling that something isn't right around here. He might be wrong, but it was something that he had to ask.
"They might be, but I don't trust them." admitted Charlotte, before she explained a bit about her life, to help Harry understand. She begun to explain how her father a widower, her mother was killed in an accident when she was a baby, abused her for a long while because she did strange things, before he tried to bury her alive, where she gained her powers to control earth. It wasn't a skill she thought about learning, but it was something she needed to serve and get out alive, from there she learn what she could about her new skills to live on the streets by herself. Whilst she might not be very good at it, she had a basic idea of her skills now and was able to create underground tunnels/rooms.
This reminded Harry a lot about himself, about how his own family hated and abused him for a while all because he did strange things. But unlike Brown's father, they didn't try to kill him, beat him half of his life yes, but not kill him. It wasn't like they didn't want to, as Harry overheard the fact that they wanted to, but they suspected they were being watched by some Freaks for some reason and they didn't want to risk the Freaks interfering in their normal lives more than the Freaks already had by placing him with them.
Harry felt he was lucky that he didn't need to leave the Dursleys just yet, sure he wanted nothing more to do so, but he knew it would be foolish. He wasn't skilled nor knowledge enough to live on the streets, not only that he wasn't sure from what he overheard Dursleys if he/they were being watched or not. He didn't want anyone to learn that he had escape, as he didn't know what would happen, and so it was for the best he stayed at the damn Dursleys. So not knowing who he could trust himself, he could understand where Charlotte was coming from. Not only that, from what Charlotte told him, he wasn't nowhere strong enough to defend himself against what is out there at the moment.
Charlotte then explained how she was out to get some food, when she was caught off guard by the Paladin and was attack. She explained that although she didn't know how Harry did it, if it wasn't for him, she would have been captured and brainwashed to fight against the Mystic Knights and others like her, or if it didn't work, she would be used for other things or killed - so she was thankful for Harry helping her.
Once she finished telling Harry what she a bit about herself, and about what happened, she asked, "Harry, can I ask, who is Lucy? As you were calling her name whilst you were out cold."
"She's my sister," the black hair kid said with a sad sigh, "she disappeared when those Sentinels got near me."
"What do you mean?" asked the young girl, confused how a Sentinel could make a person disappear. From what she knew about them, it was impossible for them to do such a thing.
"She was my imaginary friend/sister," explained Harry with a tear in his eyes, "and somehow those damn Sentinels made her to disappear."
"Oh…" Charlotte said suddenly, as she realized what he meant now.
"Don't oh me like that," Harry said darkly, "she was all I had in the world, the only one who cared for me."
"I'm sorry," apologize Charlotte, "I didn't mean to be rude, it just surprised me that's all."
"Okay, I just going to miss her." the seven year old sighed upset that he had lost Lucy, he had tried to bring her back since he awoke, but he had gotten nowhere.
"Going to miss who?" a voice said suddenly out of no, "Oh that was weird."
"Who's there?" "Lucy?" both Harry and Charlotte said at the same time.
"You can hear her/me?" both Harry and Lucy said in shock, seeing that no one had hear Lucy before.
"Of course I can I'm not deaf you know." said Charlotte, as she give him a weird look.
"But that's Lucy my imaginary sister, only I should be able to hear and see her." Harry explained, he was confused as to how this could happen, as no one before could see or even hear her before. Charlotte too was confused, and was unable to think of anything to say, as she tried to think what was going on. As she was doing this, Harry got up off the bed he was on and went up to Lucy and hugged her. To Charlotte though, it was like Harry was hugging thin air, where she got up from her chair and put a hand through way Lucy meant to be and suspect felt nothing but air.
But to Lucy it was like Charlotte had put a hand through her, and said to her, "Hey do you mind? That wasn't nice, how would you like to have some put a hand through you?"
Charlotte just stared at the spot in shock and confusion, none the wiser as to what was going on, as Harry said as he give his sister a smile, "So Lucy, what happened to you?"
"I don't know, one moment I was telling you off for running off like you did and then feeling wired and everything went dark." explained Lucy, as confused as Harry was at this, as she tried to work out what happened. "Than the next thing I knew I was here, wherever here is, with you and this girl. A girl who seems to be able to hear me."
Harry thought about it as he too tried to think about it, but after a few moments getting nothing he came to the decision he didn't care. "You know what, as long as you're back sister I don't care what happened."
"Same here," Lucy agreed with a smile, "it'll be a bit longer before I leave you alone. So can one of you two tell me what that was about?"
And so Harry and Charlotte explained once again what happened, for Charlotte it was the strangest thing that she ever went through. And since she got her powers, she had seen a lot of strange things, but this by far was the strangest. Talking to thin air, to someone that didn't really exist apart for in a mind of a seven year old child.
Once Harry and Charlotte caught Lucy up as to what was going on, they tried and come up with ideas as to how Charlotte could hear Lucy. But they came up with nothing. Before long through it was time for Harry to return to the Dursleys for the night, but Harry said he would be back later. Not only did he want to learn more about her, and what she knew, but he wanted to talk to hear about her powers.
Once Harry returned to the Dursleys, Harry smiled to see a fearful looks on the Dursleys who lead him to his new room, the spare bedroom. It seemed that his threat work, he now had the second biggest room. They even allowed to look through Dudley's second bedroom to see if there was anything he wanted, his aunt and uncle wanted to keep him happy as much as possible, before they turned the room into the spare bedroom. This was something Dudley didn't like, but a look from his parents was enough to keep him from say anything. And so start a new chapter in Harry's life. The seven year old did wonder how long it would last for, but for the moment he didn't really care as he slept in the soft bed.
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14th of March 2008:
It had been almost three months since Harry meet Charlotte, and has he thought about it, it was the best gift other than creating Lucy. He spent more time with Charlotte then at the Dursleys, although thanks to a few threats and showing them what he could do with fire, the Dursleys hadn't been a real problem for Harry. If it wasn't for the fact he wasn't sure who was watching him, and how, he wouldn't even be at the Dursleys.
If way he was glad he had made friends with Charlotte, as not only did he have a new friend and someone to train with, but she helped him to learn how to do some basic earth element moves. It was difficult, but over the last few months, Harry was able to create and launch small spheres of earth, and low powered projectiles of earth.
It wasn't much, but with his training with his fire ability and Jumping, it was enough to fit his needs for now. He knew that with training with Charlotte, and his own training it would take year to master his fire and other abilities. But like many kids his age he enjoyed fire. The way it glowed and danced and how it stood out against the backdrop of reality, it was that reason that Harry would keep up with it until he could master this ability, to have it bend to his will, and become the most powerful being out there.
The problem was that with the way the Dursleys brought him up, his influence with fire wasn't doing his mental stability any favours. He already had emotional problems as it was, but more he trained with his flames, more unsettled his emotions became.
In fact he asked his new friend about this, and she had informed him that it wasn't really surprising, as from what she learnt about Fire Mystics, their powers were powered by their emotions. And from what she heard, it is believed that the more angrier the Fire Mystic became, more powerful their skill could become. But at the same time their emotions could became more unsettled, letting their emotions get the better of them. And so to help with this, the Fire Mystic learnt how to meditate to keep control of their emotions and so their powers.
Now although he was learning to meditate to keep control of his emotions, it didn't stop him from slowly becoming a budding pyromaniac. It started somewhat harmless enough, he would start small fires and watched them burn out. But if it wasn't for Lucy and Charlotte, he would have just watched them get out of control and burn down buildings. He didn't tell Charlotte this, as he didn't want to make her afraid of him, but he even had dreams of watching the Dursleys being burnt alive by his flames, as he sat there and laughed as it happened. Harry knew that whilst his own flames didn't hurt him, normal fire that was created by him would, but as the months passed, those flames that did hurt him stopped doing so. Sure he didn't know if a magical fire would hurt him or not, but he suspected as he became more powerful that kind of problem wouldn't be a problem.
Not only was he learning about his psychokinetic and earth abilities while he was awake, but he was learning in his dreams with his sister. This was how he learnt so quickly to control his flames. To help further his training, Harry and Lucy would play catch with his fire, throwing fireballs at each other. His current skill set was coming along fine, but he, Lucy and Charlotte knew he still had room to learn more. They came up with the idea that that seeing he got his idea to learn how to control fire from the movie and comics of Fantastic Four, he should keep on getting ideas from the movie and comics. In fact Charlotte joined them too, thinking that she might be able to get more ideas on how to control her powers from comic and cartoons, even get some new powers too.
Charlotte Brown was a god send to Harry and Lucy, not only did she help to teach Harry how to do some earth attacks and they want Harry to learn, and keep him from letting his fire go wild - but she give them an underground headquarters to train, and come when they needed to get away from the Dursleys - although after hearing about his past with them, if he said something Brown might have been willing to help. In the past the young girl only had created one or two rooms, but now she had a few more for herself and Harry - a few of them were used as somewhere to train. Harry helped to light the rooms with his fire skills.
Over the last few months, Harry and Lucy learnt more about Charlotte's life before they meet, about how her own father abused her because she was different, it reminded them of how the Dursleys treated Harry, and her time on the streets. Charlotte explained about how she did try and get some help, but no one seemed to care as they should, the police, the government workers that meant to help people like her, none seem to really care. And those who did could do nothing because of their bosses stopping them.
Hearing this made Harry realize that being a hero in this day and age was worth nothing, if the government who meant to protect its people did nothing, why be a hero in the first place? All it would do was put a band aid on the problem, as no one would really care, it would just help cover up the existing problem up even more and nothing would be done about the main problem.
The best course of action would a criminal himself: his line of thought was that if he can't fix the problem, he would be part of it. Instead of using his skills to help, he would use them for his own gains, to get what he wants and if possible change the world to fit his own needs. He may not become a supervillain, but he won't be a superhero, instead he'll use them to do what he want and screw everyone else. His resolve was more so when he heard that a few months before Charlotte meet them, she had been doing a few sexual acts to gain money, and still doing so.
The thing that made Harry to want to use his powers for his own gain, wasn't the fact she was doing sexual acts for money, he heard about such people and they normally done so as they needed the money. No it was the fact that a few people who paid Charlotte for these sexual acts, were the people who meant to protect her, the police, doctors and social workers, that used her. If these people could use her like that, there was no point in protecting people who would let them stay in power.
Anyway it was a Friday after school, and Harry had decided to walk to the nearby forest to train some. He, Lucy and Charlotte trained together often trained at their underground hideout, but sometimes Harry liked to train in the forest, in the open air. One of the main things that they were trying to was allow Charlotte to see Lucy. As it was strange for her to hear Lucy but not see her, and that she could see Harry hugging fine air, and being hit by an invisible force.
They never discovered why Charlotte could hear Lucy, but over the last three months, there have been a few times since then where others could hear her too. Surprisingly the Dursleys and those Harry didn't like nor trust could hear her, so Charlotte came to the conclusion somehow his powers evolved so that Lucy could be heard by anyone apart for those Harry didn't like or trust. Harry and Lucy wasn't sure about it, as Harry didn't feel he was more powerful, but it did seem to make sense though.
Either way, over the last few months, they made little progress, the best that they could was over the last week where Charlotte could see the outlines of Lucy. It was a start, and might take a while before Charlotte could see Lucy fully. But other than that they were been training hard as they could, one of the skills that Charlotte wanted to learn was from a cartoon called Avatar the Last Airbender. She wanted to learn how to cover her hand in earth, to make a Earth Gauntlet. With training her other abilities, and helping Harry with his earth abilities, she hasn't got as far as she wanted, but was happy to have someone to train with in her earth abilities too.
As for Harry, after reading comics, and watching movies, TV shows and cartoons, Harry and the girls came up with a skill he could try. Pyroportation, or better known as Fire Teleportation or Flaming - they got the idea from watching a TV show called Charmed.
Sure Harry was able to Jump to wherever he wanted now days as long it was within the county, but the fact was if he used his fire abilities and Jump at the same time, it would be only matter of time before the Mystic Knights would find out it was Harry behind the fire attacks. Even if Harry got off, he would be on their rider and anyone magical would be watching him. So Harry would need another way around it if he still wanted to do such things. It was something he liked the idea of, not only was it a cool skill to have, but it was from the demonic powers from Charmed, something he had been and failing to be able to do. If he could do something like that, he would be one step closer in having demonic powers, even though it was barely a demonic power.
Over the last few months though he hadn't got far, but he put it down to the fact that he had been training with his other skills too, and so might not be powerful enough to do so yet. The only bit of success he had was when he compressed the energy that fuelled his pyrokinesis into a tight ball and then let it go. The ring of fire that had exploded outward around him had seared straight through the tree he'd been leaning on - which had thankfully fallen backward from the kinetic force. This was definitely something he would be practising in the future.
During the training though, something strange happened, Lucy begun to start her own ideas of what she wanted to do. Sure she could use the same powers as Harry within controlling fire and earth, seeing that she was part of him. But she wanted to learn something for herself, something that Harry couldn't do, or wanted.
Whilst somewhat surprised, although Harry knew he shouldn't be seeing Lucy had a strange free will even if she was part of him, he was happy for his sister to learn something of her own. It made her even more special in his eyes. And she did find some powers she wanted to try, and they came from reading the various incarnations of the X-Men, as they had many different powers, powers that could be useful to her.
The first skill Lucy learnt was shapeshifting and the ability to change into animals, and whilst wouldn't mind having the ability himself, he wasn't too bothered about learning it. As with his own training of fire and earth, and learning to close his tares from Jumping, he didn't have the time to try to learn more.
Either way, Lucy had great fun changing into all different people, making him laugh as she altered their appearance to comical degrees. The same with the animals, he loved it when she came a wolf or a tiger for some reason. Lucy also found out that she could become any humanoid animal, a hybrid of girl and animal. Harry thought she looked very cute as a Catgirl, and as a Wolfgirl. Harry often wondered that if she was real, if she would have enlightened smile and sight because she was part animal.
Another ability Lucy was able to gain was the ability to copy herself. This skill Harry wished he had time to learn, as he could be in two places at once and get away with things, but sadly he didn't have time. Lucy liked the idea of having a few more of herself, and teasing her brother. At the moment she was only able to make two clones of herself, but it was enough for her and had fun teasing her brother.
One last skill she give herself over the months, was that she was able to get another pair of arms to grow out of the side of her body, like the character she'd seen in some of the Japanese comics they'd found in the specialty store. Now this skill Harry had no interest at all in, as he didn't see the point of having another set of arms and had to wonder why his sister wanted them for.
As Harry thought about the past few months, he became so lost in his thoughts, and as he made his way deeper into the forest, he didn't take in his surroundings. If he had he would have seen that he was being followed by people in armour, the armour of the Paladins. The Paladins were out in search not only for other Mystics, but they were keeping an eye out for Harry as he was the only one to defeat and turn a Sentinel into ash. They wanted to find out how that could happen, and to see if they could control that person, so that they could get that person to help them to defeat the heathens faster. As over the last few months though, they were unable to find the person behind what happened to the Sentinels, but it seemed that today was their lucky day. They were coming to the forest to make a drop, when one of the men spotted the black haired kid that he recognise was the one that turned the Sentinels into ash.
It was only by luck that Harry heard a glass bottle being smashed, and at the last second ducked as he saw someone about to hit him over the head with what looked like a police baton. As Harry recognized the people who attacked him as Paladins, he was about to Jump away, like he normally would have done to get out of a fight. Or that would what he have done, but the second that he tried. He felt a painful shock of electric going through him as a modified police baton hit him mid Jump, causing him to fall onto the ground in pain.
As Harry slowly turned round and look up to see what hit him, he saw six Paladins surrounding him, each holding a police baton, which reminded Harry of the batons from the film Jumper. Not wanting to be captured by these Paladins, he was about to do something he knew might not work but had no other chose if he didn't wanted to be captured - he tried painfully to try and Jump and hope it would Jump. But as he suspected, one of the Paladins hit with the electrified baton.
"Oh please Heathen," one of the Paladin's said with a sneer, who sounded like a male, "do you really think you can Jump? We all know about the Mystics Skills, and how you try to copy them from different places. We also know most of your weaknesses, so we can counter them."
"You and your kind are nothing but heathens, you Mystics, Wizards and other magical users," said a female sounding Paladin, "no one other than God should have the power you have."
Harry couldn't help himself as he said darkly, "But wasn't it said that God made us in his image? So why is it so hard to think that he might have given some of us, some of his powers too?"
Right away Harry knew it was the wrong thing to say as one of the Paladin's kicked and poked him with the electrified baton. As they said, "How dare you heathen, God would not give us lowly mortals such powers."
Harry would have said that the Paladin sounded jealous, but wisely kept quiet. Instead he pushed his magic to make a small earthquake, hoping that he could make them lose balance long enough for him to escape. He was glad that his plan worked, and as the small earthquake shook the Paladins, which they tried to keep standing but with little luck, Harry stood up and tried to make his escape as quickly as he could. But as he was in too much pain to Jump, the best he could do was to run and hide.
However though, before Harry could get too far, someone came out of the shadows wearing a black cloak. Harry only had to wonder who this person was, when the person removed their cloak. Harry saw that it was a man, and he was wearing a thick fiery coloured armour, with silver shoulder, legs, chest and wrist guards with yellow balls on them. Upon seeing this person, he said, "Well heathen you seemed quite skilled, you'll be very useful to capturing other heathens so we can get rid of them."
"High Master Gavinrad," said one of the Paladins, who had gotten up of the ground, before kneeling in front of the new arrival, as the other Paladins followed suit as they got off the ground, "he caught off us. We won't aware that he was able to use earth attacks as well as fire."
"That's what I keep telling you all Paladin Jacob," began High Master Gavinrad, "don't suspect these Mystics to have one set of skills, or only use wands like their cousin heathens the Wizards and Witches. I've seen some who had three set of skills other than wandless magic that they use. But I have to say, to find a child heathen that has two elements abilities at such a young age, I'm truly surprised. He'll be very useful to our organization, with training he'll be able to get rid of the other heathens ease, and help us creating a God fearing world as it should be."
"Like hell will I help you mad men," the seven year old Harry said, in pain, as Gavinrad hit him with the electrified baton, "I won't be helping you."
High Master Gavinrad just laughed darkly at Harry as he hit Harry again, before saying, "By the time we finish with you heathen, you'll be doing what we say and you'll do so without another word."
Just than Harry saw at least five tears, tears like he made when Jumping and realized that someone who could Jump too, was about to appear. He wasn't sure who it was going to be, nor did he cared at the moment seeing that this could be his chance to escape. So with a knowing smirk, he said to High Master Gavinrad, "I think you'll be having a problem there asshole."
"What do you -" began High Master Gavinrad, when fifteen people in armour, appeared out of no where seven of them Harry heard made a popping sound as they appeared. The armour was thick in the chest and legs, but thinner in the arms. The armour itself consisted of a red leather top and ankle length skirt as the base, a slightly smaller blue leather piece of the same shape over top of it, and finally heavy plates literally belted into place over the hips, chest, arms, and head. And the last thing Harry saw before Gavinrad knocked him out, was the Paladins, and this new group fighting each other.
The armour on the knight was thick in the chest and legs, but thinner in the arms. Great for swinging a weapon with impunity, but it left him looking just a bit silly. The armour itself consisted of a red leather top and ankle length skirt as the base, a slightly smaller blue leather piece of the same shape over top of it, and finally heavy plates literally belted into place over the knight's hips, chest, arms, and head.
To be Continued!
Author's Note: Here ends the third part of the Saga, Harry's Childhood, I thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. I know that it looks like that Harry is going to be superpowered kid, but he isn't really as there are others like him, other Mystics who have power who are about the same level as him, weaker or in a rare case stronger than him. Not to forget the adult Mystics too, who'll be stronger than Harry too, for now at least. So don't worry Harry isn't going to be overpowered who no-one can stop him, at least for now that is, once the story comes along he'll become stronger and nearly unstoppable. But it doesn't mean he can't be, just hard once he gets strong enough.
I also know that there'll be a lot of people that might not like how I wrote about Charlotte's past, but like it or not, but this kind of thing with police, doctor's and such people using children for sexual acts sadly does happen. I'm sorry if this upsets you or you don't like it, but I'm trying to write a realistic dark background for each person who'll join Harry and his pursuit into darkness.
Either way, I'm still after ideas for different powers for the Mystics, like I said I would like them from comics, shows and movies and would like them before 2007. To help here is a site of powers, if you find any you like, let me know and I'll see about adding them: powerlisting . wikia wiki/Superpower_Wiki
I've been searching for sites for characters and I found one, if there is a character in this list you want someone to copy the powers from, let me know who that character is and the reason the person want to copy them and I'll see what I can do about adding them: www . superherodb characters/
First Paladin's Armour: yuq . me/users/26/140/4TxjEWupqk . png
High Master Gavinrad Armour: www . conceptart . ?attachmentid=1149355&stc=1&d=1295511407
The armour of the strangers that appeared at the end of the chapter: orijnramboer . files . wordpress 2011/08/battlemage . jpg
If you can describe these armours better, please let me know. And if you want to help with describing future armours and that in future chapters, please let me know as I'm looking for help. As I'm somewhat awful at describing armours and such, and would like some help if you can help me.
So you know though, I'm working on a side-story to this story, to explain how the Mystics came to be, and allow me to add a few of your OCs into the story, and explain about them in the story too. I know I could explain things in this story, but as most of you see in my works, I often tend to go overboard when I do such things and so decided after starting the story that the side-story is better for this. As I want to keep things going smoothly, and I don't want to go off track in explaining things in this story - so I created the side story. Like it or not, the Mystics and the elements of their creation are going to be a big part of this story, and feel I should take time in explaining them. So I'll be working on the side-story of this for a while, before returning to his one. So if you want to know more about the Mystics, I would like it if you read Rise of Overlord Vulcan Side-Story - The Mystics. As not only would like to see your thoughts, but any ideas you want to see to happen with the Mystics, and what tech could be used too and such.
Either way, I would like to thank you once again for reading and I hope you spare a few minutes to leave a review and let me know what you think of the chapter, and any ideas you might have for the future chapters, and any powers you would like to be used in the story.
Question: As many of you know, this story is going to have a crossover with Fairy Tail. So I would like to ask about the one hundred year quest that Gildarts went on, what could it have been. From what I've read, it might have to do with something that is on, or has happened on Zonia Mountains, but unlike many might have thought, it has nothing to involve the Black Dragon, Acnologia. Gildarts told Natsu that he stopped, because of Acnologia, not that the quest was Acnologia. If it wasn't for the Black Dragon, Gildarts would have kept on his quest, so it wasn't to defeat the dragon. So what are your thoughts as to what is the hundred year quest?
Next Chapter: In the next instalment of Harry's Childhood Sage, Harry is taken to Mystic Island and meets up with the Mystics, where he learns a bit about the Mystic.