Chapter 2

Dumbledore couldn't believe his luck. Just when he had given up, the Goblet of Fire had delivered him the boy who lived, right into Hogwarts.

Although it seems there had been a few complications. He had not been sure, but after clearly seeing the scar on the man's forehead in combination with the fact that he had been transported here after the Goblet had spit out the name of Harry Potter was all the proof he needed.

At first, it took all his control to not hex those foolish kids and take the Potter boy, to make him into the weapon he was supposed to be.

But when they had suddenly gotten battle-ready that idea went down the drain. He had felt some sort of magic radiating off of all of them, except the boy with the black sword. Instead, he felt something much more dreadful from both the sword as well as the book.

And all those books. It seemed they were their equivalent to wands, except for that one girl who had both. There were just too many unknown variables to attack.

But the boy was not supposed to be 28 but 14. When he had tried to cast a diagnostic spell as well as a subtle suggestion charm on the boy, his hand had been gripped before he could even begin casting.

The boy had finally been delivered to him, now everything was supposed to be better, but instead, he could not move his hand at all, and when Severus tried to help he had been completely immobilized in an instant.

And so his only chance had been to explain what the man wanted to know. Otherwise, he would have had his hand crushed and possibly started a fight that they probably wouldn't have been able to win.


Man, this was shit.

They had just finished dealing with most of the aftermath of the elves. Having rebuilt the base, everyone's wounds had been treated and telling the Magic Parliament to fuck off when they had tried to blame Asta and Secre.

And now they had been summoned to another world, where he was supposed to be some teenage boy who had survived a Death Curse and was supposed to be their savior, just so he could participate in some dumb tournament.

When he had asked the old coot what attribute that Death Curse had, the man looked like he had asked him what magic was.

And now after yesterday, he hoped he wouldn't be interrupted again while taking a shit, or those wizards could say goodbye to their castle because he would bring down at least half of it.

"Sir?"

"Magna, this better be good."

That boy should know better not to interrupt him when he was on the toilet.

"It's that old guy. He insists that we go into that hall to eat and that you come."

"Tell him I'm busy."

"I did, but he wants to have you sorted. Whatever that means."

"I don't give a fuck. Tell him to fuck off, or I'm gonna give that hall a real open ceiling, not just some dumb illusion."

"Yes, Yami sir!"

It took him about another 15 minutes to finish up before he headed out. Only to be greeted by an odd sight once he reached their common area.

"Henry?"

"Caaaaaptain Yaaaaammiii."

The mass of blue hair turned around to reveal the somewhat secret member of his squad, but if he was down here in front of him, shouldn't his Mana be getting drained?

"There iiiissss so muuuuuch Maannaa aroouund heeerreee."

"You mean like enough that you don't drain ours?"

"Yeeeess."

"Huh, so everyone else is in that hall? So why are you here, if you can finally be with everyone else."

"Weeeeell..."

The man didn't get to finish his sentence as a portal opened up and Finral stumbled through, bits of food stuck in his hair.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Captain Yami. I advise you not to go into that hall right know?"

"And why's that?"

"We were eating, when this red-haired kid with freckles tried to take Charmys food because she took the last of something he wanted."

"So there is one suicidal kid less, don't see the problem."

"Well, after she knocked him into the wall across the hall, someone started a food fight and..."

Someone started a food fight in Charmy's presence? Their first day here was promising to be an exciting one.

"Okay, where are the others?"

"Trying to hold Charmy back so there won't be a bloodbath. But Asta left to train this morning and hasn't come back to eat yet."

That was weird, while the boy always trained too much, he knew the importance of meals, including the consequences of missing them. Those consequences mainly being Charmy being angry that he had wasted the food she had cooked for him.

"I'll see if I can find the idiot. You find out a way to get us back."

"Yes, Captain Yami."

It was weird, exiting the base only to find himself still inside a building. He looked ahead through the massive door to the great hall, as the old coot had called it.

He wasn't surprised that it now resembled a battlefield. He could see numerous of Charmy's sheep running around chasing students, Magna's fireballs and Lucks lightning being flung around, with occasional blasts of water from Noelle, but the girl seemed to be focusing more on defense with several of her Sea Dragon's Nests being strewn throughout the hall.

The watery domes were acting as safe zones for the students since fleeing wasn't an option with two of Charmys sheep guarding the doors.

He had a pretty good idea about who had started that mess, considering that Zora had not yet returned from Breakfast.

He caught an apple that flew through the doors.

"Better than no breakfast."

He took a bite and went around the base towards the exit of the castle.

He easily spotted the idiot near the lake swinging his sword. Some of the students were watching him, mainly girls.

"Oi, Dumbass. Why are you still training? You do know what Charmy will do to you if you don't eat."

Asta froze up mid-swing, looking at him horrified.

"NOOOO. I'M SORRY, CHARMY-SENPAI."

He walked towards the lake since the idiot had forgotten to pick up his shirt. He picked it up and turned back towards the castle, only to see Asta suddenly stopping before entering the castle.

He walked up to him.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, Captain Yami. I just remembered I still need to train."

"No, you trained for the last four hours. Charmy is already trying to kill half the students. Don't need her to go after you too."

"OF COURSE, CAPTAIN YAMI."

"Stop yelling, and get your ass inside already."

Asta started to walk towards the doors again, only to stop.

"I'll just go train now, Captain."

"Ok. No. This is stupid."

He just grabbed Asta by the scruff of the neck and threw him into the castle.

"You sure it was alright throwing him like that?"

He turned to the side, seeing a hulking man with a thick brown beard, dressed in a thick mantle.

Now that he saw the man's clothing, it was pretty chilly outside with just his shirt.

"He'll be alright. Probably already eating so Charmy doesn't try and rip him apart. You have any idea why he vehemently refused to enter back inside by himself? Some dumb security spell of this place?"

"Well, that'd only be the case if he's a muggle."

"The hell's a muggle?"

"Someone without magic."

"That explains it."

"You telling me that boy has no magic?"

"He's a special case. Is there any way that I won't have to chuck his ass back in every time?"

"You'd probably want to talk to Dumbledore about that."

"Nah, I don't think he likes me."

"Why's that?"

"I nearly broke his wrist."

"Bloody hell. Why would you do that?"

"Hey. He was trying to cast some spell on me, without my permission. What did he expect me to do when he just raises his wand at me?"

They had arrived at the entrance of the base, during their conversation.

A quick look through the doors on the opposite side showed that, while Charmy was no longer trying to massacre the students, they were now trying to massacre each other with some colorful spells that he couldn't really sort into any sensible category of magic, partly because it seemed that they all used the same magic. But what he did notice were the subtly magic traps activated by spells that had been deflected upwards, where no one would notice them.

"You wanna come inside? I'm sure we have some breakfast for you, or you could take your chances in that battlefield."

After a few seconds, the man answered.

"I think I might take you up on that offer. I'm Rubeus Hagrid."

"Yami Sukehiro."

Opening the doors he was greeted to the usual sight of chaos.

Asta was gulping down massive amounts of food Charmy had made for him. Gauche was looking at a picture of his sister. Luck was provoking Magna. Vanessa was drinking. Noelle was trying to read in the corner. Secre was sitting on Asta's head as a bird. Gordon was muttering in the corner. And Finral was off god knows where. Just a normal morning in the home of the Black Bulls.

A change was Henry trying to talk to Grey. He was probably just happy to talk to someone and tried to help her with her confidence issues.

"Oi, Charmy. Get another batch of breakfast going."

"No one shall go hungry, la."

"That's not necessary. I can just eat some at my house."

"No. You will eat now."

Charmy was already placing down the first bowls on the table.

"You better get over there, she doesn't take kindly to people wasting food."

"Well, if it's already finished, I won't say no."

"That's the spirit la."

"Asta, don't forget, you're on feeding duty later. I'm gonna take a dump."

"Yes, Captain Yami."


That had been exactly what he had needed. Coming back down into the mess hall. Almost all of the others were gone. Only Grey and Henry were still talking in a corner.

He grabbed a bottle from behind the counter and took a swig. Turning his head he saw Zora coming through the doors.

"Caused enough havoc?"

"For now."

"So what did you find out?"

"Huh?"

"I saw your traps and I know you did all that to find out something. So out with it."

"It's their magic. It's completely different."

"I guessed that much already."

"Yeah, but there are also similarities. Those wands, they are like our grimoires. Without them they are helpless, not like Noelle who uses it as an additional tool. Physically they are all shit. Almost all of them barely above Henry. The mana they use, it is similar but still different and they all use the same spells, only limited by which ones they learned, assuming that the older ones have studied longer."

"Good to know. How'd your traps work with them?"

"Don't know. They all had differing strength in their spells so I don't know if it amplifies them or not. Apart from that, it works perfectly, just like normal."

At this, he could hear excited voices coming from the stairs to the basement.

"...really are magnificent."

Emerging from the stairs he saw Asta covered in the usual bite marks after someone other than he tried to feed his pets, as well as Hagrid who looked like a small child who had just been given candy by his mother.

"Who's the big oaf?"

"Hey, that's not a nice thing to say."

"Don't mind him. The little shit's an asshole to everyone."

"ZORA, HOW CAN YOU BE SO RUDE TO HAGRID!"

"Here, catch, big guy."

Great, he was doing the number with the stink bug again. Doesn't he know a different way to great people for the first time?

"Huh? Never seen this kind of bug before."

He could see the odor coming from the bug, wafting directly into Hagrid's face. How was the guy not reacting at all?

"What the hell is wrong with you? That thing stinks terribly and you don't react at all."

"Look, I own a normal dog as well as a giant three-headed one. And I deal with all kinds of nasty things on a daily basis. I've smelled much worse."

"For example?"

"The stink bombs of the Weasley Twins are much worse."

"Well. I'm off to find those guys."

He guessed Zora mainly wanted to find the biggest troublemakers to get his hands on any information about secret pathways or other useful things.

"Gotta say Yami, those pets of yours are really adorable."

What? The guy saw them trying to eat Asta and found them adorable?

"You mind if I come by sometimes and play with them?"

"Sure if you got a death wish."

"People always that. They are just misunderstood."

"If you think so. But they almost killed my guys last time they played with them."

"That just shows that they need more time with others to get rid of all that energy."

"Sure, come by anytime. If they accept you, you can play with them as much as you want."

"Thanks, Yami. I have never seen anything like them before and it's just so exciting."

"You really like this kind of stuff, huh."

"Yeah. I'm responsible for the forest and all creatures used by Hogwarts. And I'm also the teacher for Care of Magical Creatures."

"Sounds interesting. You're welcome any time. Even if you just want to talk. Yeah, Hagrid?"

"Thanks. I gotta get to my class now."

"See ya."

He watched Asta putting away his cleaning outfit and get a pair of clothes that hadn't been slobbered by his pets.

"I'll go explore the castle Captain."

"Hold it."

"Huh?"

Asta had already started to open the door when he turned towards Yami. This resulted in him not seeing the cloud of red and golden glitter that was shot through the now open doors, covering the left side of his body, as well as the ground in front of the doors.

"Well, first you gotta clean that up now."

"And then I can go, Captain?"

"No."

"But, Captain-"

The boy was now right in his face, about to start trying to convince him to let him go. Before he could continue Yami grabbed his face and held him up. Ignoring his yelps of pain he started explaining.

"We are in enemy territory and they have security measures that target you directly. So you're not leaving the base."

"But Hagrid is nice. He's not an enemy."

"Maybe. But the old goat is a manipulator and obviously wants me for something and the Greasehead's first thought was to attack us, so outside the base is considered enemy territory and until you find a way to defend against their spells, you're on guard duty and not allowed outside."

"How am I supposed to do that? Hagrid said it keeps out people who have no magic. I can't just gain magic, I tried my whole life."

"Don't know. Don't you have that Anti-Mana that you let flow through you for your devil form? Just draw that directly from your grimoire and spread that like Mana Zone, or something like that."

Asta gained a thoughtful look at that.

"Anyway. Don't let anyone who isn't part of the bulls in or Hagrid, or if they are accompanied by one of us. Just to be safe tap everyone who comes in with one of your swords. If anyone else comes in just kick them out."

"Yes, Captain Yami."

"Right, I'm gonna explore this castle."

Fixing his Katana to his belt he left the base, carefully avoiding the glitter now strewn across half of the entrance, looking back, the front of the base was covered in it as well.

Choosing a random staircase he just walked.

He would never admit it, but he was worried about Asta. These people had spells that specifically targeted magic-less people and they had no defense against it. But he also knew Asta, the boy would definitely find a way around the spells and be it just because he couldn't train properly when confined to the base. Something he couldn't accept and so he would work hard to be allowed outside.

He could hear Zora laughing in the corridor around the corner. When he turned he was greeted to the sight of Zora as well as two kids with orange hair, hunched over some sort of parchment. Talking in hushed voices.

"Oi Zora."

The three boys turned around, not in the least bit surprised about his presence, the two redheads were obviously twins.

One of them pointed his wand at the parchment and muttered something.

"Make sure the outside of the base is clean by tomorrow."

"Yeah, I'm not gonna clean that."

"Just make sure it's clean. Don't care how you do it as long as the base still stands"

"We can take care of that Mr. Sukehiro."

"I'd regret just saying yes wouldn't I?"

"Oh absolutely."

"Look. How about this, you can do stuff like this once a week to the base, and as long as make sure it is back as to how it was before the next morning I'm not going to filet you."

The two looked at each other.

"Brother dearest?"

"Yes?"

"I think I like Mr. Sukehiro here."

"I was thinking the same thing, my brother."

They turned back towards him.

"We agree to your terms and are delighted at your attitude towards our endeavors."

"Great, but only the outside. If you do anything on the inside I'm going to shove your heads up the others' arse."

"That's acceptable."

"Great."

He wondered what the others were up to. Gauche was probably looking for a way to see his sister again, for once that obsession might come in handy with helping Finral finding a way back, and that better be what he was working on.

Charmy was in the kitchens or searching for them, he'd bet his whole monthly wage on that. Either she was hungry and wanted more, or was going to yell at the cooks because the food hadn't been up to her standards

Gordon was freaking out someone but just wanted to make new friends. Sometimes he pitied the boy, he was really nice, when you got past the creepy outside he was a caring person who'd do anything for his friends.

Noelle was probably exploring like himself and trying to find something to do. Or maybe she was training at that lake. She did gain a lot of confidence in her magic since she joined.

Vanessa was either embarrassing some little boys with her outfit or searching where to get booze around here. He would have to ask her if she found some.

Magna and Luck were almost certainly trying to bash each other's heads in. He saw some sort of stadium when he had been outside, maybe that was where they were. He looked out a window he was walking by and saw explosions and lighting arcing out of the stadium, confirming his suspicions.

Now Secre. To be honest, he had no clue, she had been a bird until recently and then had always been around Asta, so he didn't really know her yet.


Hey. Few things I like to say.

First, I really tried to write Hagrids dialect, but it was horrible and it didn't work at all. So you'll have to make do with him speaking normally.

Second. I have just read up on the BC Manga and holy shit. I won't spoil anything now, but I now have ideas on how to further progress their abilities and what to do. Also, I plan to continue this even after year 4, and with that, I have some pretty good ideas of what to do with the Clover universe and how it will change and all that. So look forward to that when it eventually comes.

Third. I already had some specific ideas on what to do with the various bulls, but I have to say thank you to 'texaswookie'. Because somehow the idea of a 'Snob-Off' between Draco and Noelle never crossed my mind, but that is honestly a brilliant idea that I will try to do justice with my writing skills. Seriously thank you for pointing that out to me.

I know this Chapter was supposed to come out on Monday, but I lost a friend and it has not been easy.

Anyway hope you enjoyed

-Zimzimgar