Chapter Six…

Harry's Childhood - Part 6!

(End of Harry's Childhood!)

31st July 2011 - No 4 Privet Drive:

It has been about two and a half years since The Underground Asylum opened, and since then a lot has changed. We find Harry in the living room of No 4 Privet Drive, which was a rare event for him, as he would be either in his room, at Underground Asylum as Maverick or in his underground training area training his powers. The reason he was at his uncle's and aunt's place, who were out for the day, was because he was waiting for someone from Hogwarts to pick him up to take him to Diagon Alley - which was the main reason the Dursleys weren't there. So they wouldn't be around another freak. Not if they were like the little monster that was Harry Potter.

Now as Harry was waiting for whoever was going to pick him up, he thought about what happened since The Underground Asylum opened. To start off with The Underground Asylum opened, its reputation grew within the Underworld of Crime.

When Harry first opened Underground Asylum, he thought it would be hard seeing that the Wizarding World tried to alter the memories of Muggles who found out about magic. But it wasn't the case, it would seem that little did the Wizarding World knew, as much as they tried to hide the fact that magic was real, it would seem that the Criminal World knew more than the Wizarding World knew. So Harry was able to do more much easier than he first thought.

It had it rough patches at the start, but that was slowly dealt with. Sure at the moment people could easily find them, if they wanted to, even if they had removed everything before entering the Asylum. They could use spell on the person, or put a magical item into their body, they could still be found. Luckily they haven't been found yet, and if they did, whoever found them haven't done anything yet. But that should be dealt with before the main Underground Asylum opened.

As Maverick, he worked with the Gringotts on an idea he had, that would block someone's power as long as they wore it. He got the idea from watch an episode of X-Men, in it the government invented a collar that blocks mutant powers. But the problem was that people wouldn't wear such an item without a good reason, which is why he was working with the Goblins. Harry had an idea which would make it so they had to wear it if they want to enter the Asylum, and helped him with another problem: cheaters.

At the moment they would enter the Meeting Chamber, they would pay and change in another set of clothes and wear a mask to protect them, and leave everything, even their wands, in a sealed container that only that person could use. Then once they entered the Asylum, they got their chips from the counters and played the games. The thing is that those who were Mystics and was able to use Wandless Magic, could still cheat and steal from others. This was why Harry could explain why they would have to wear such an item, apart for stopping any magical tracking items, it would stop any cheating and theft.

And Harry got an idea from hearing about an item that sometimes used in games or a comic, he couldn't remember where, that kept track of the money the person used and gained. They would have to scan the item over a scanner to add money to the item, or to use it. So if he could copy this item, and combine it so that people can't use any sort of magic, he was sure people would wear it if they wanted to keep going to Underground Asylum. And seeing that they can only enter at relay points that Blink decided on, his punters know that they wouldn't be busted by the police easily, unlike other illegal places that they went to. And it was a much better set up to for them to, as many underground betting places wasn't as it used to be. Underground betting places used to have music, women, drinking and so more, like the Asylum had, but because of tighter policing, they had to do what they wanted in dark and gloomy places.

Blink was a God send, she was the same age as Charlotte, but she had purple skin and hair, as she liked the character Blink so much that her magic turned her skin to look like the character. But not only did she have the power of Blink, she had a few powers of Psylocke from the X-Men Comics, at the moment she was able to use the Telekinesis Abilities that Psylocke had, such as Force Fields and Telekinetic Weapons - which come out purple. Up 'til recently, she didn't bother with learning Psylocke's Telepathy Abilities, as she wanted to learn skills that would able to protect her. But now she had said skills, she had began to see if she could learn Psylocke's Telepathy Abilities.

Because of this, Charlotte's and Blink's former clients, and their friends clients, who were the first lot to come to Underground Asylum, told their friends that they trusted about the place. And over time more and more people came, and over time they had to make the temporary Asylum bigger. Allowing them able to put more things into the temporary Asylum.

Back to Harry's idea, seeing that he didn't know how to combine the two ideas of his, he went to Gringotts for help. If they didn't know how to do it, they might know someone who could. Sadly they didn't know, they liked the idea of it, they agreed to put their researchers into making such an item. Harry got the feeling that they wanted to sell such an item to people, so he made a deal with them, if they were able to make the item, they had to give him as many of them as he wanted for free, and give him thirty percent of the sells. Surprisingly, they Goblins were more than enough happy to do so. So henceforth, Harry had another possible income coming to him. That was about a year ago that he talked to the Goblins about it, and it would seem that they were close into making them, about another few months or so. Which made Harry happy, as until such time, he couldn't open the main Asylum, which would allow him to offer his punters more.

On a personal note about the Asylum, as Maverick, Charlotte had him have at least two woman by his side at all time, who only wear black lace knickers. Charlotte explained that this was because it would show who owned Asylum, and the importance he was to the place. And on the word of Bowser, he had two enforcers who were Mystics following him, so that should fights start up, they could deal with it. It didn't mean that as Maverick, Harry didn't do anything, people knew him as an Earth Mystic, who used his powers should he have to. This was Harry's and Charlotte's idea, as it would make people think that it was Harry who created the Asylum, and so shouldn't be bothered with.

As the years passed since the Asylum opened, the Asylum and the name Maverick gained a good reputation. Because Maverick the boss of the Underground Asylum, where people could go and bet and pay for sex without the police getting at them. And because there were a few private rooms, they could have meetings without fear of others finding out what was being said. This was one of the reasons why so many came to Underground Asylum, they could do what they like - as long as they don't make problems for the establishment - and not worry getting caught. Harry couldn't wait for the Goblins to finish the item that would block people using magic, as he then could open up the main Underground Asylum, and get more people in.

Now when he wasn't running the Asylum, doing school work, or working on the main Asylum, he was training with Lucy and Charlotte. He kept up with his old training, mainly his shapeshifting, invisibility (which he now could be fully invisible for about an hour.) Also he was working on his earth abilities (which he could do almost everything that Charlotte could do but he was not as powerful,) and his fire abilities. One of his fire abilities he was working on, was his Pyroportation, or better known as Fire Teleportation, and Jumping Skills: for his Jumping ability, he was now Jump to France and Ireland, he suspected he could go anyway if he wanted to, but seeing that he had no reason at the moment he didn't try.

As for his training with Pyroportation, Harry was able to do so with a few months after the Asylum was opened, but it was only with a few meters of where he was. Harry was able to gain the ability about three months after Asylum was opened. To begin with Harry was only able to fire teleport about five metres from where he was, but over time he was able to teleport feather and feather away.

Another ability he was working on, was how to make weapons out of fire, like swords and axes. It was within the last few months he also decided that spamming fireballs, and other projection attacks was both wasteful and not very useful when people got up close and personal in a fight. So he decided to make his fire ability so he can fight in close range fights, the most he could do right now was a small digger.

He wasn't only training on his old skills, but he had started to learn a few of the new ones that he wanted to learn for a while now. The first was learning to fly as he wanted to do for some time: it took a while but he he learnt that if he manipulated his fire right, he was able to fly; just like the the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four comics. It took some time, but before his tenth birthday Harry had learned how to fly without any mishaps. He could never get very high, since he didn't want to be spotted, but he did it whenever he could get away with it; he felt free, alive, in the air. It was like he was born to be in the air.

Next, he finally started to learn to transform into something like the Ghost Rider. He started off small, his tiny toe, as if couldn't turn it back, no one would be able to see it. After months of training, and Lucy and Charlotte encouraging him, Harry was able to transform his whole leg into a skeleton leg. It took a while to get used to walk on it, but when he could he did he learnt he started on his other leg. Over time Harry was able to transform both his legs and arms into only bone, he had yet started his head or body yet, as he didn't have the courage to do so. The reason for it was because the head or body held the important parts of him that kept him living, and until he could find a way to learn a way to transform without the risk of dying he wasn't going to do more just yet.

Anyway, other than learning his Ghost Rider's powers, he begun to learn a few demonic powers to go with them. It was before his tenth birthday, and at first Harry wasn't sure which demonic power to pick, after talking about it, Lucy decided it was for the best that he tries to summon demonic creatures. She explained that whilst he'll gain followers and allies in the future, before that and even after finding them, he'll often find himself fighting alone and need someone to back him up, and so being able to summon demonic creatures help with that.

So when Harry got the time when he wasn't training his other skills, Harry tried to summon a demonic creature. It took a while seeing that he had a lot on his plate, but by the end of last month, he was able to summon two skeleton warriors to his side. He just wished his sister was here to see it.

Magical training was the only thing that Harry was learning, he was learning to street fight on the advice of Bowser. The former Pit Boss emphasised that Harry should learn how to fight without magic, as one day he might run into someone who is either stronger than him, or for whatever reason, he could not use his magic. Harry had to admit that the former Pit Boss had a point, and so agreed to have one of Bowser's friends train him in street fighting when he got the time.

All things said though, there is an old saying, all good things come to an end, and in Harry's case, the good time with his sister had came to an end. You see like all imaginary friends, over time the often slowly disappears - just like Lucy did.

You see since the Underground Asylum opened, over the next year and a half, Harry was either busy with school, training or running the Asylum. Because of this, Harry was so caught up in everything that was happening that he didn't realize her advice becoming less and less frequent and she was appearing less and less. He only thought she was talking to either Charlotte or their new friend Blink, who after being friends with Harry for a few months could see her.

It wasn't until Harry woke up on his tenth birthday and didn't hear his sister's customary good morning and birthday greeting that he realized what was happening; he was devastated at this. With Lucy, he wouldn't be where he was today, he wouldn't have found out about his powers, have a healthy body, had friends, or even own Asylum. So it was no wonder that he was devastated, Lucy was everything to him and now she was gone.

But with the thanks to Charlotte, Blink and Bowser, he was eventually able to recover from losing Lucy. But he would often think back to the times with his imaginary sister fondly. Those times that he wasn't alone, those were good times. Even now he would use what he thought she would do in the situations he found himself in to get out of trouble.

She was the one who helped and give him the confidence to mould to his sly and smart side, giving him the idea to keep things from people, teaching him how to lie convincingly and with the help of Charlotte, help him create the Underground Asylum.

The ability to lie convincingly was a useful skill to have, and it came in handy many times when his pyromaniac tenancies got the best of him, now that he didn't have a sister to caution him against such behaviour, and he was found at the scene of a fire more often. Sure he had the others, but they won't Lucy who had a bit power on controlling his behaviour when he got out of hand.

The Mystic Knights came round the area to find the 'Mysterious Firebomber,' a name that the papers began to call him for the jobs he did for people who wanted their insurance money. At first they didn't think it was him, but seeing that he was at the scene of the fires more often, and knowing he was a Fire Mystic, they began to question him. But thanks to no proof being left that he had anything to do with the fires, they couldn't do anything to him at the moment.

Either way time passed about a few weeks before eleventh birthday, he got a Hogwarts letter that he was suspecting he would get. At first he wasn't sure how to handle the letter, should he send a reply or not, and if so, how should he reply to it. Harry knew that it was most likely Dumbledore that sent him to his aunt's and uncle's if what he found out was true, and if so he would most than likely knew how he would be treated and suspect and hoping that Harry wouldn't learn much about magic. So this way he could send someone to rescue him, and bring him into the Wizarding World. It didn't help that the letter didn't tell him where to get his things, and how to reply when there was no owl waiting for him with said reply. Making Harry wonder what to do… should he go to Hogwarts or not, if he couldn't trust the Headmaster.

After talking to Charlotte, Blink and Bowser, it was decided that it was for the best to go to Hogwarts, so he could gain allies from his own age range. The problem was how to handle Dumbledore, as they didn't what his plans were for Harry. It was after getting the same letter in two days in a row, they knew something was up, as normally they would not send a second letter so soon. So it was either wait until Dumbledore had enough of sending letters until he sent someone to get Harry, or send a reply now.

After the third day of three letters appearing, it was decided that Harry should reply, informing the Headmaster he would be coming. But at the same time, informing the Headmaster that he didn't trust him, this is so that the old man knew where each other stood.

It was about two days later that Harry got a letter from Albus Dumbledore, saying that he could send someone to take him into Diagon Alley on his birthday. He couldn't send someone sooner, as everyone who could do so, was busy and couldn't help until then.

So here he was, waiting for whoever would be picking him up to take him to Diagon Alley, when there was a loud thumping sound, and the room felt like it was in a small earthquake. Standing up Harry went, to the door to see who did this.

As Harry opened the door, he saw a giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair. Harry was somewhat amazed at the size of the man, and had to wonder if he was a half-giant he read about in one of the books he got from Diagon Alley one time.

"Can I help you sir?" asked Harry. He suspected that he was the one who was picking him up to take him to Diagon Alley, but he wanted to make sure it was.

"Greetings, I'm Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." introduced the man giant.

To be Continued!

Author's Note: Here ends the sixth and final part of the Harry's Childhood Saga, I hope you have enjoyed this saga, I would like to thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed it. I know that some of you might think that this saga was boring, and I'll admit it was in a way, but I was setting up things for Harry's time at Hogwarts and what is going to happen during the next few years there.

I hope what I have done with the chapter, and how I set things up in the story. I'm still looking for OC Mystics, and if you were reading the side story, I'm looking for OC Books of Zeref's: Etherious. If you can help me, please let me know of any ideas you might have. Any that I like, I'll use in this story and give you thanks for them.

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