Hey everyone! So at last I'm updating Legacy ho rah! All kidding aside this chapter will be a short filler so I can focus more on the Yule Ball and the second task in the next chapter. Thank you all for your patience and your support in this fiction.
Disclaimer is in the first chapter.
Chapter Six
Harry sat outside his and Neville's tent meditating nearby Neville, Hermione, and Tonks was going through the velocities of Tai Chi with Lora.
While Harry knew it wasn't the style Tonks and Neville would continue to learn it was a great way for the trio to get used to learning martial arts, as well as the sort of meditative trance one enters because of the water like style.
"Sir the Lioness approaches…and she isn't alone." Harry opened his eyes to see Ronin in his usual place outside of training.
"Who is with her?" He asked the Bug/Metal Pokémon.
"She comes with the female giant…and her champion." Harry raised an eyebrow at this, but had a small feeling what they wanted.
"Let them pass." He said as he rose to his feet and pulled on his shirt and belt. Harry made his way to the border of the enclosure leaving the others to continue their training.
Once there he didn't have long to wait before McGonagall approached with her guest. "Professor…what can I do for you and your company today?" Harry asked.
"Lord Black I have come to inform you of something that involves the tournament. However Madame Maxima and her charge have requested to come and thank you personally for your actions yesterday." She explained making Harry nod as he looked towards the giantess and her pheromone covered champion.
"While I understand the sentiment I'm afraid the thanks are unneeded. I was simply performing the duties of my job." He explained to the pair.
"Never the less I wish to thank you for my life." Fleur said to him allowing her allure to once more hit the air causing his nostrils to flare slightly.
"I would ask that you stop doing that." He said making her blink. "While my mind is able to handle your pheromones I'm afraid my friends are another story." He said making her smile.
"Then I was right. You can resist a Veela's allure." She said making him raise an eyebrow towards her. "My Mother's people are called Veela. We are a sister species to the Succubi/Incubi species."
"Fae of love and lust if I remember my readings correctly." He said making her nod.
"Indeed. Only we are also beings of fire and wind." She said before making a blue fireball appear in her hand her features turning slightly bird like. Harry could feel the allure once more push upon his mind but his training in Aura and its mental aspect helped him repel it.
After a few second Fleur returned to her common visage with the fire vanishing from sight. "It isn't very common to find one able to resist our allure. In fact I can count on one hand the number of men I've encountered able to resist." She said making Harry tilts his head slightly.
She looked down and noticed that while his mind was able to resist his body had still been susceptible to her allure. Which meant he wasn't able to resist because of the fact he was homosexual…"How very interesting." She said before turning and walking away.
Harry watched her walk away noticing that she was moving her hips slightly as if to jut out her bum for his eyes only.
He turned his eyes to McGonagall once more. "And what have you come to tell me Professor?" He asked making her blink as if regaining her own focus.
"Ah yes. I have come to inform you that one of the tournaments traditions include a ball on our Yule Holidays. The reason I am telling you think now is because tradition dictates that the Champions and their dates open the ball.
The Yule Ball will be announced to the rest of the students here in a week, but the judges felt that the Champions should be made aware sooner. I ask that you keep quiet about the ball until said announcement." Harry nodded slowly after that.
"Then it seems Mum was right. I was going to need those dancing lessons someday. Thank you Professor my date and I will be ready…as soon as I ask someone." He said before turning to leave leaving the two teachers behind.
"I fear my champion has set her sights upon that young man." Madame Maxima said as she and McGonagall turned to leave as well.
"Yes. I'm afraid Miss. Granger will not take such a thing sitting down." She added.
"She…showed you…?"
"Her true nature. It seems she finds it interesting that I am able to remain unaffected by her allure." Harry answered Hermione's question when the trio of humans asked him where he had gone.
So far he had only told them about his interactions with Fleur keeping to McGonagall's request to keep quiet about the ball. "That explains why you were walking uncomfortably." Neville joked to his God-brother said brother gave him an unamused glare.
"My mind is my own…but my body is still that of a hormonal teenage boy." He said to the slightly chubby teen who just shrugged with a smirk.
"Yet he ever reacts like that to my attempts at teasing." Tonks groused making Harry look towards her.
"I have spent most of my life dealing with older women trying to use their bodies to gather my attention. I have learned to ignore such attempts." Harry informed her making her blink before she slumped her head forward.
"And after Delacour was done…exposing herself what did McGonagall want?" Tonks asked after a moment.
"She was informing me of something involving the tournament…which will be made public in a week." He said making her pout at the lack of information.
After a moment Harry picked up the latest Daily Prophet. "I'm going to be gone tomorrow early." Harry announced suddenly making the trio of humans blink.
"Sharpblade has requested my presents for an investment meeting." He said making them nod.
"What are you going to take over this time?" Tonks asked with a large smirk. After all the last time Harry invested in something her mother became the editor in chief of the Daily Prophet.
"Alcohol. Malfoy lost all of his shares in Ogden's Finest Firewhiskey and Sharpblade believes we can use them to cripple the choke hold the Purebloods have on that monopoly." Harry said without looking up from his paper. The trio shrugged at the information not thinking anything of it.
Harry stepped off the Knight Bus a purple double decker bus for the magical world. Before him was a non-magical neighborhood he took in a deep breath as he folded a piece of paper into his pocket.
The paper was given to him by Sharpblade after their meeting. Today Harry had a mission the most deadly he had ever faced. Harry walked up to a business. He noticed the sign next to the door.
Dr. & Dr. Granger DDS.
He read before he pushed open the door into the practice he was dressed in a pair of blue jeans, a red sweater, his black vest, and fingered gloves. He still had on his boots but his hat was off allowing everyone to see his messy black hair.
Around his throat was a yellow and black scarf and a pair of sunglasses over his eyes. "Can I help you dearie?" A kindly older woman asked from behind the counter.
"Yes I was hoping to catch Dr. Daniel Granger or Dr. Emma Granger during their break. I'm a classmate of their daughter my name is Harry Ketchum." Harry said making the woman nods.
"Let me see if one of them is available. You can wait in one of the chairs." She said making him nod as he took off his glasses and scarf before he sat down.
After a moment a woman wearing a white lab coat walked out. She had tanned skin, bright brown eyes, and a head of dark blond hair. "Mr. Ketchum?" She asked as Harry rose to his feet.
"Follow me please." After a moment Harry and Dr. Granger walked in to see a tall man wearing a coat as well. He was paler than his wife, muscled, and a head of curly brown hair. Hermione got most of her looks from her mother, but her bushy hair from her father.
"Mr. Ketchum this is my husband Daniel." Emma said as she moved to her desk. The man looked Harry up and down as the pair approached one another. After a moment of silence Dan smiled.
"Military?" He asked making Harry smirk.
"Aura Guardian unit K-002. In terms of rank I would be something close to the America's Gunnery Sergeant."
"An enlisted man huh?" Dan asked making Harry nod before speaking up. "And what rank did you hold?"
"Master Chief Petty Officer Daniel Granger of her Majesty's SBS. Retired of course."
"Explains why Mia has such a love of the sea." Harry said making Daniel laugh before he moved to join his wives side.
"Now then Gunny. What can we do for you?" Dan asked Harry who chuckled at the title.
"I've come because in a weeks' time Mia is going to write home about a tradition among the Tournament happening at her school. It is known as the Yule Ball." Harry said making the pair of parents blink before nodding.
"Explains why they wanted her to gather dress robes for a special occasion." Emma said making Harry nod.
"Yes. The reason I have come here is because I wish to ask your blessing to take your daughter to said ball as my date." Harry said making both parents blink once more.
Dan leaned his head on his enclosed hands as he looked the boy before him down. After a moment of attempting to intimidate said Aura Guardian he sighed as he backed off.
"I'm not scaring you in the least am I?" He asked making Harry shrug.
"Sorry, but I'm afraid of your wife not you." Harry said making Dan snort.
"Smart boy." He said under his breath while Emma smirked. It seemed Hermione had told the boy about the times she had brought her husband to heel when he was acting foolish.
"What exactly are your intentions for our daughter?" Emma asked Harry who smiled.
"I wish to take her to the ball, and after…if she'll have me…I'd like to court her." Emma could see that he was being honest with her from the look in his eyes.
"And what if she does not want you?" She asked making Harry blink.
"Then I will be a heartbroken man, but I would still be her friend. Again if she'd have me. Honestly…I pray that she'll allow me the chance to try and woo her." Harry said before he looked Emma in the eyes.
"Ever since I've met her Mia has…bewitched me." Harry said as his eyes slightly lost focus.
"The constant curiosity hidden in her brown eyes. The amount of love she has for every creature on this world." Harry smiled as he thought about Hermione all while Emma and Dan looked towards one another with knowing smiles.
"The way she bites on her lower lip when she's lost in thought while reading a book." Harry continued.
"The way she has gained the love and respect of the ones I cherish most." He smiled before looking at a pair of adults.
"Because of the fact my family is rather…politically powerful back home I have spent my life dealing with women wanting to use me for their own gain.
Mia…Mia is different. She doesn't look at me and see the son of Kanto's champion, grandson of its longest running champion, or son of her Grand Duchess.
Hell she doesn't even see me as Lord Black, the Boy-Who-Lives, or any title this world placed upon me. To her…I'm Harry. Just Harry. All quite honestly…that's all I've ever wanted to be in someone's eyes." He explained to her making Emma nod.
Emma sighed after a moment. "I always knew my little girl would one day become old enough to date, and that one day she might bring a boy home for us to meet. Never thought he would come before us and ask for our blessing." Harry chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.
"My Dad is rather old fashioned when it comes to love and relationships." He explained making Emma nod with a smirk.
A week later Harry looked up as the trio of friends returned from class, and from the look of sheer panic that was on Tonks' face the ball had been announced.
"It's not bloody fair!" She called out as they approached. "A ball! A bloody ball! Don't they realize that there are those amongst them that can't carry a tune…or have two left feet…?!"
"Or the grace of a troll?" Hermione added making Tonks point to her.
"That too." She agreed either not realizing or caring that she had just insulted herself.
"You heard the teachers it's tradition…plus you don't have to go Tonks." Neville said to her getting a loud snort as an answer.
"Oh yes miss the biggest social event of my Hogwarts career? That will make my mum happy." She grumbled burying her head in her arms after.
Harry closed his book as he rose to his feet and moved off from them motioning for Hermione to join him. Curious of what he could want Hermione followed with little prompt.
Once they were a distance away from the other two Hermione spoke up. "So the ball was what Professor McGonagall informed you of?" Hermione asked making him nod.
"All the judges believed it was best to inform the Champions ahead of time. I was asked to keep the information to myself until it was announced to the rest of the student body." He said explaining why he had kept the information of the ball hidden.
"I believed it was something like that. You don't strike me as one to keep secrets from ones who had gained your trust." She said making him nod.
After a moment of silence Harry spoke up again. "I wasn't fully honest when I mentioned the reason for heading to London." He said making her blink but wait.
"After seeing Sharpblade I went downtown…to the dental practice of Dr. and Dr. Granger." He said making her look at him in surprise.
"You went to see my parents?" She asked making him nod.
"Why?" She asked making him look at her. "To ask for their blessing." Hermione blinked again at the answer a part of her filled with excitement at his statement.
"Mia…in the short amount of time I've known you I've…"
"Just ask me you lug." She interrupted making him blink this time before he smiled.
"Eager are we?" He asked making her shrug. "Mia will you do me the honor of being my date to the Yule Ball as my girlfriend?" He asked her making her smile brightly.
"It would be my privilege." She said before she grabbed his shirt and pulled him in close sealing her lips against his.
"About bloody time." Tonks said to Neville as the pair of them looked out towards the spot where Harry and Hermione stood.
"Not going to say anything about the fact that Hermione stole the first kiss?" Neville asked her making her shrug.
"Honestly after hearing that the Veela is interested in him as well, I expected her to drag him into the nearest broom closet and have her way with him. I'm actually surprised she had the restraint to wait till Harry asked her out." Tonks said making Neville take a moment before nodding in agreement.
"What are Daddy and Mummy doing?" Kallisto asked Grace from their spot nearby.
Kallisto was spending time with Grace, Lunar, and Bolt while they taught her how to use Scratch in battle.
"It's a human courtship ritual known as kissing. Humans when they are mated or courting press their lips against one another's to show great feeling and emotion towards one another." Grace explained to the little one who turned her head slightly not fully understanding.
"Kissing is one way humans show another human they love them." Bolt simplified making Kallisto nod.
"Oh okay." She said moving off to play with Lunar moving to keep a watch over her.
"Ah the simplicity of a child's mind. I almost miss the days when Luna was like that." Bolt said making Grace nod.
"I believe the time is right for another child." She said making Bolt look towards her.
"Now? But boss is still raising Kallisto…"
"I meant to be raised by his mate." Grace interrupted making Bolt blink.
"And we wouldn't be the only ones." Grace said as Lara and Champ as well as Blaze and Dazzler.
"I see I'm not the only one to sense it." Lara said making Grace nod.
"My child will be paired with the mate of our trainer." Grace said before Lara looked towards Neville.
"Mine shall be partnered with the hidden warrior who will watch his back."
"Leaving ours with the most fiery spirited member of the four." Blaze said.
"When should we give the eggs to them?" Champ asked the group the Hitmonchan looking towards Neville.
"From what I've come to understand this Yule is a time for one to give gifts to loved ones. That will give us plenty of time to bring the eggs into the world." Lara said making the others nod. After all they had half a month to work.
Once Hermione broke the kiss between herself and Harry she flushed bright red from a combination of breathlessness and embarrassment.
"Wow…" Was all Harry said making her flush just a little more.
"I didn't think you were so bold Miss. Granger. I'll have to keep a close eye on my virtue." Harry joked making Hermione cry out in slight outrage as she smacked his arm and began chasing him around while he laughed just barely staying out of arm's reach.
Eventually he snagged her and flipped her around in the air making her cry out as the pair fell to the ground landing on the soft grass laying side by side. "Now whose virtue is in danger?" She asked after a couple of breaths while they laid there facing one another.
"Only as much danger as you allow." He answered making her smile at him before leaning forward and started a second kiss this time most chaste then the first.
Once they separated Harry rose to his feet and offered his hand to her making her smile as she accepted the hand before they walked back to the tents while holding hands.
She was already planning the color of her dress since she knew Harry would have to get dress robes, or a tuxedo since he hadn't been planning for such an event before arriving in the UK. "I hope he likes Periwinkle." She thought knowing it was her best color to be dressed in.
Thank you all for enjoying this fiction and I've got to say this has fast become one of my favorite works to hear back on.
As you read there will be more for Hermione, Tonks, and Neville to do when it comes to the Pokemon so just wait and see what happens.
That's all for now Ja Ne