Disclaimer: - I, SSG-Goku3397, do not own Harry Potter or Stargate Series or any of the other Cross-Over Series. It all belongs to their rightful owners. The only thing that I do own is the plot of this story and OC's that are present within the story.

Chapter 4

"Alright everyone. Please take your seats. Dinner will be served shortly. Before that though, let me introduce you all to some of my close confidants and friends." Harry said as the group from earth took their seats at the large round table. They were surprised to see goblins and two other races of being they couldn't recognize present as well.

"This is Supreme Commander Thor of the Asgard and my teacher in logistics and fleet battle strategy."

"Greetings. It is an honour to meet you all."

"Thor as in the Norse God of Thunder?" Daphne asked in awe.

"Not quite. While we are considered gods by many of the younger races, that is only because of our immensely advanced technology and wisdom, that is born from our millennia of survival."

"What do you mean by younger races?" Tonks asked with a frown.

"Sentient races that have recently come into existence, like most human populations around the Galaxy."

"So you consider us young in comparison to you?" Susan asked with an angry frown.

"Of course. Even the High Chancellor Potter is young by our standards. We, each member of the Asgard, have been alive for a little over eight million years."

Everyone looked startled at the information when the other Asgard, a female from the aesthetics, said, "But by the existence of you race, you are descendants of the oldest race know to the Great Alliance. After all the Alterans are over fifty million years old."

"And you are?" Amelia asked with a polite smile.

"Hemidal my dear. I am the best expert in genetics and proteomics the Asgard has!"

"And Thor's wife. She can be a bit excitable. Please don't mind her." Yuri said causing Hemidal to look at her with a disapproving expression.

"This young lad is Nafrayu of the Nox and the lady beside her is Lya, my teacher in morality and fair judgment. They are the second eldest race in the alliance and masters in Druidism and Healing. Nafrayu is like a little brother to me while Lya is like an aunt."

"It is a pleasure to meet you all. I hope that peace reigns over all of you." Lya said with a nod getting a nod in return.

"This is one of my best friends and the princess of the Furlings, Silverfang. Unfortunately, Hordemaster Ragnok and her parents were unable to attend on such short notice. They are the third oldest race and masters of Warcraft, especially planetary Warcraft and battle strategy. The Goblins of Earth are the long lost kin of the Furlings and one of the twenty-three Hordes of the Furling nation."

"It's a pleasure to meet you all. If any of you wish to for a challenge, be sure to challenge me to a spar. I am quite skilled in duelling, both with weapons and pure ZPE manipulation!" Silverfang said with a feral grin causing many of the kids to shrink back from her fierce display.

"Don't get your hopes up. She is a pushover in the ring!" Harry said with a teasing grin causing Silverfang to snarl and say, "Really? Then how did I kick your scrawny little behind during our last spar?"

"Because you cheated. We were restricted to only physical skills and you have the greater experience in it!"

"Break it up you two. You can settle your rivalries tomorrow!" Yuri exclaimed, clapping her hands to get ther attention.

"Does that happen often?" Andromeda asked with concern.

"More often than we like, but that's how they bond. Don't let their behaviour fool you, they are closer than most blood siblings, but they have a great rivalry as well. Princess Silverfang was the one who taught Harry physical combat. She is one of the best young warriors the Furlings have." Lya said with a disapproving frown.

"But Harry is a better warrior that Silverfang!" Nafrayu interrupted causing Silverfang to look at the boy and say, "If you weren't a Nox, I would have challenged you to a spar right now!"

"You have already met Admiral Nikolai Kozlov. The girl sitting beside him is Councillor Charlotte Pierre. She heads the Education Board for the Nova Alterans.

"Nice to meet your acquaintance." Charlotte greeted with a smile causing most of the group to nod and smile in return.

"The woman sitting beside Charlotte is Councillor Aiyana heading the Genetics and Proteomics Department. She is the eldest living non-ascended Alteran at the moment at a little over seven million years old."

"Stop branding about my age High Chancellor! Anyway, nice to meet all of you."

"Are you really over seven million years old?" Astoria asked in awe as soon as Aiyana finished. Aiyana sighed before nodding.

"That's right young one. I was frozen in stasis when the whole galaxy was suffering from a deadly plague. The plague almost wiped out all four races of the Great Alliance and had completely eradicated all other life. Those not infected had decided to leave in search of a new home and I was left behind when it was found that I was carrying the plague."

"If you were carrying the plague, then wasn't it dangerous for you to be released from stasis?" Croaker asked with concern.

"Luckily, those who left and their descendants had later developed a cure. High Councillor Yuri helped administer the cure. I once again thank you High Councillor and High Chancellor for finding me and then authorizing my treatment. You didn't have an obligation to find and heal me, especially with the little amount of data you had."

"Stop thanking us Aiyana. It was the right thing to do. I will never let my people suffer while I can do something to help!"

Aiyana bowed her head in respect before smiling. Harry just sighed before addressing the crowd again, "I found her stasis pod chamber buried early one and a half miles under ice in the Antarctic."

"Anyway, the married couple sitting beside Silverfang are Councillor Nicholas Flamel and his wife Prenelle. Newly inducted into the Nova Alteran Nation, but valuable members none the less. Nicholas heads the Applied ZPE Field Research Department, or you might recognize it as the same work the Unspeakable and other Spell Crafters do. Prenelle has been gracious enough to be the first Dean of the Natural ZPE Field Manipulation Department which is our equivalent to your studies in Magic."

A polite round of applause sounded from the Terran guests before a flash of light drew everyone's attention to one of the empty seats. Turning their attention to it, they saw a dark haired woman sitting choking a beautiful white and ice blue phoenix in her hands with an annoyed expression on her face.

"Ah… Ganos?"

"WHAT?" Ganos Lal shouted in annoyance before blushing at her slip. Releasing the phoenix, who quickly teleported to Harry's shoulder in a burst of powder snow, Ganos said, "Sorry about that. That sorry excuse for a feather duster has been sneaking into the Ascended Plane and causing havoc amongst my peers. Harry, keep Niveis under control, or I will make sure that she keeps having an early rebirth!"

Harry sighed before turning to the cowering phoenix and said, "Why do you like to torment me so?"

Niveis trilled causing everyone's hearts to lighten at the sound but Harry only sighed more before addressing everyone, "This is my Snow Phoenix Familiar, Niveis. Please don't feed her any sweets as she will become hyper again and I can assure you that a hyper Niveis is the worst thing in existence. The lady who brought her here is my surrogate mother, Ganos Lal of the Ascended Alterans. She also goes by the name Morgana Ley Fay on Earth."

Everyone stared at the woman in shock before Astoria finally asked, "Are you really the Dark Witch Morgana Ley Fay?"

"Dark Witch? Just because I was against Merlin's idiocy doesn't make me dark child, though if you consider that I specialize in rituals and soul manipulation magic, most of which are now carter blanche classified as Dark, then you can consider me a Dark Witch." Ganos said with a smirk.

"You don't consider the magic you use Dark?" McGonagall asked with incredulity.

"My dear, Merlin himself is a master in rituals and blood magic. All of which is now classified as dark, but do you consider him a Dark Wizard?" McGonagall sputtered at the counter question but before she could answer, Ganos continued, "Beside, magic isn't inherently aligned with a mentality. It is the intent of the caster that turns a spell dark, though the Killing Curse is an incomplete spell, so don't consider it dark. It wasn't even made to kill. What was supposed to do was accelerate the mental development causing the target to ascend. Merlin was the one who was creating the damned spell, but he was unable to finish as he was sealed away for breaking our laws."

Everyone from the Magical Community blanched at the information before Tonks asked, "What do you mean by Ascend? I heard harry refer you to as an Ascended. What does that mean?"

Ganos grinned before she shed the physical form she took and transformed into a being of pure energy. With a voice filled with authority, Ganos spoke. "This is what it means to be an ascended. We are connected to the universe in a way that in nearly unimaginable. We overcome death and become true immortals. Our powers become well neigh incomprehensible. To most of the lower beings, we are the closest things to true gods, though we do not consider us as such."

As Tonks and the rest of the Terrans watched the scene in abject awe, as Ganos returned back to a physical form before speaking, "Harry is the only non-ascended who can access the Ascended Plane through the use of Astral Projection."

"I think you have had your fun Ganos. Atlas wishes to speak with you immediately!" Janus said appearing in his Ascended state before turning to the gathered group and saying with an annoyingly high pitch, "Welcome to Tartarus younglings. The greatest City Ship of our Race! Harry, make sure that they get the tour!"

Before Harry could hex him for the annoyance he caused, Janus quickly retreated back to the Ascended Plane with Ganos. Harry just lowered his head and rubbed his forehead for a moment before saying, "We need to find a way to lock out Janus from Tartarus. He has been popping in at the most inopportune times and annoying me."

"What can stop an Ascended when they are determined?" Thor asked with a chuckle, feeling quite at ease with the recovery of his emotions.

"I don't know Thor, but I will find a way. After all, they are beings of energy. There must be a modulation that will keep them out."

"You have some very interesting friends and family Harry. Who was that man?" Croaker said with a chuckle.

Harry grumbled causing Remus to chuckle before explaining. "That was Janus. He is one of the greatest minds the Alteran Race has had in regards to the fabric of time and high energy physics. From what I heard, he was one of Harry's mentors, though Harry started outclassing him after a short time. He is also a big prankster."

"Really Lupin? Then I would love to speak with him about the fabric of time. I just can't accept that all research into time is finished and we only need to refine the present equipment's and artefacts!" Croaker exclaimed with excitement.

"Calm down Algeron, I will make sure that you get the chance to discuss theory with him. I still have somethings to show everyone. Now people, if you would focus your attention to the middle of the table. I will project the details of what I need to tell you along with videos and photographs!"

Right after Harry said that, the lights turned off as a large hologram was displayed floating above the table, showing photos of a sprawling city that had a lot of Arabian architecture sitting on a lone rocky island. Harry spoke, "What you see is the City of Celestis, on the Planes of Celestis on our original home planet, the planet our race evolved, Celestis. That was once the seat of power of the Alteran Race until we were split into two factions upon the discovery of Ascension. One faction, the Ori, considered themselves gods while we considered us enlightened. They chose to indoctrinate the younger races into a fake religion called Origin that considered them gods. We tried to prevent it by our own forced indoctrination, but our morality stopped us. A bloody battle waged between the two factions that ultimately led to the victory of the Ori and our exile from our Home Galaxy and Celestis."

After that, Harry showed clips from the war with the Ori. The creation of Tartarus. The clip where the then Alteran High Council denied the use of Amelius' device the Ark of Truth before all the Alterans left the galaxy in defeat. They journey to Avalon and then settling on Dakara and building of the Seeding Machine to seed life into the galaxy. Then moving on to Earth, which they named Terra. At this Harry paused before commenting, "The next section is about the building of Vis Uban and the outbreak of the plague."

Everyone nodded in understanding as Harry allowed the clips to play. They saw the attempts to change history, and then leaving the galaxy. They saw the discovery of the reason of the illness, the near discovery of the cure by the inhabitants of City Ship Discenna before they became infected by the causative organism called Fenrir. The displaced Alterans settling on Lantea and the renaming of the survivors as Lanteans.

"What you will see next is the war with a vampiric race called the Wraith, who evolved from our own negligence while reseeding the Pegasus Galaxy." And as Harry said, the group watched the first few run ins with the Wraith. How the Lanteans learned of the Wraith feeding habits of consuming the life force of the humans. How the Lanteans tried to fix their mistakes by eradicating the unapproachable Wraith by creating the Asuran Nanites to wipe out the species, as they were losing the war. How they abandoned the Asuran Nanites and finally submerged the City Ship of Atlantis before the last of the Lanteans, that included Moros, Ganos and Janus, escaped back to earth before the display stopped.

"What happened next?" Daphne asked with curiosity, speaking up for the first time.

"The Lantean survivors either Ascended or mingled with the less evolved humans of the time and gave birth to the Magical People and the other Alteran Descendants who aren't developed enough to gain access to magic, as you would call it."

Everyone nodded as Daphne frowned before asking, "How did you come into our heritage?"

"Let's just say that my immense inherent ascended level powers drew the attention of the Ascended Alterans. Though they don't interfere, they decided that I was an exception and decided to raise me. My request caused them to search out other orphaned Alteran Descendants like Yuri, Nikolai and Charlotte, and bring them here. No more questions. We have a dinner to eat and after that, I will give you a tour of the City."

"Alright Lord Emrys."

Harry nodded before adding as an afterthought, "Please keep all of this a secret. I will reveal everything to the world at large when the time is right."

"I think I speak for everyone from Earth that we shall keep your confidence. Besides, I don't think anyone would even believe us if we told them. Not without the amount of documented proof you showed us." Mithas Greengrass said while all the others from Earth nodded in agreement.

Harry nodded as the hologram dispersed and the lights came back on. In a flash of white light, the whole table was filled with a selection of the most delectable dishes from the collective databases of the four races. Anastasia came forward and started explaining the dishes on display and from which civilization it came from. It seemed that the Furling preparation of an aquatic creature found on their new home world was the star dish, being liked by all those present. The second most liked dish was the traditional Nox vegetarian dish. Unfortunately, it seemed that the Alteran meat preparation wasn't well received with the amount of spices in it. The only dish from the Asgard was a nutrient rich stew.

Thor, Lya, Silverfang, Aiyana, and the Flamels had excused themselves from the tour while Nikolai and Charlotte volunteered their expertise to explain certain features to the group. The addition of Lupin was also a bit surprising, but he just commented that he still hadn't had the full tour yet.

"Alright, this here is the control tower of the City," Harry said as they appeared in the large room at the top of the centremost spire of the city. The whole room was filled with instrumentation panels and holographic displays. There was a skeleton crew bustling about, studying the various consoles and making changes. "This is main control room from where the Administrator of the City and his crew works from. As I am on board, and this is the Capital of the Nova Alterans. I am the present Administrator with Yuri as Assistant Administrator."

"You can watch over the whole city from here?" Amelia asked, her shock easily visible.

"Not only the whole City, Ameila. The sensors give us a complete and detailed view of everything that I occurring within 1.2 kilo parsecs(kpc) of us. To make you all understand the distance, 1 parasec(pc) is equal to about 3.26 light-years(ly) and 1 ly is equal to about 9.46 trillion km. So 1.2 kpc is equivalent to roughly 30.84 quadrillion km. That's the amount of area we have under constant surveillance at all times. The only way to escape our notice is by using cloaking fields, equivalent to disillusionment charms and invisibility cloaks, to sneak in, but even then the probability is nearly nil. Our upgraded scanners are the most advanced at the moment."

"That's some impressive surveillance you have Harry. Makes our Underage Magic Detection Net look like the creation of a child." Croaker said with an eldritch gleam in his eyes. "Can the sensors be calibrated to detect Magic Use and then detect what spells are being cast?"

"Easily, as long as the spells unique energy matrix is registered in the database. In fact, the sensors are capable of singling out a single person by the unique bioenergy signature every living being has. It is different for everyone, just like magical signature is different for everyone."

"I won't mind getting my hands on such a state of the art surveillance system. It would be so much easier to track down the criminals and prevent crime."

"I am sure that you wouldn't Amelia, and in the future, I will have less powerful scanners installed for the DMLE. Until then, you will have to make do the old way. Now let us head on. The next stop is the R&D Labs and the separate Department Offices."

As harry said, the group was beamed into a section of the city they would later come to learn was just a small part of the R&D Division. Here, Harry showed them the active labs and the hydroponics lab where all plant based resources were produced. There were only five active labs at the moment. One of them was the Genetics and Proteomics Lab. The second was the High Energy Physics Lab, which was focusing in the continued development of the Nyx Energy Core. The third lab was the Planetary Sciences Lab, which was focusing on the development of the terraforming technology in conjecture with the increased energy output from the new Nyx Core. The Fourth lab was the General Biosciences Lab. The final was the newly inaugurated Pure ZPE Applications Lab which was basically a lab where the research was similar to what the Department of Mysteries and all magical researchers do.

"This next section is dedicated the manufacturing and maintenance. You will see how the constructors here conjures what is needed by transforming energy into matter or by energizing the raw materials and then building the items by re-materializing the molecules in the structure as need." Harry said as they walked into large chamber. The group saw many disk like objects flying about. Some were energizing raw materials before flying back to their designated posts and continuing with the construction. There were three specialized constructions flying about, that were round in shape. They seemed to be conjuring what was needed wherever necessary.

"WOW! WICKED!" Tonks exclaimed before turning to Harry and asked, "They are building everything from the molecular level right? Can the constructors be used to repair damage?"

"Of course. Even a nano-fracture can be completely repaired to the point the item will become as strong as if it was newly made." Harry said when Croaker asked, "What is that Airplane like artefact, Harry?"

"Ah… that's the newly developed single pilot fighter-interceptor. Large ships aren't really good in taking down smaller ships. If you want to learn more about them, ask Nikolai. He was the one who developed them."

Croaker turned to Nikolai who preened at the attention and explained, "Until now, our race's main weapon was a multiphasic drones. They could phase through enemy shields and directly attack their ships. Unfortunately, they are expensive to make and a ship can only carry so many. If an enemy launches a flight of fighter-interceptors, then we would have to waste many of the drones in taking them down. I though it a waste of resources."

"So you created these to counter the enemy. Smart decision Admiral Kozlov. How is it they fly? I don't see the jets usually mounted on such devices."

Charlotte giggled and said, "Director Croaker, we have done away with the need of rocket thrusters many millions of years ago. We use devices that create a mutable anti-gravity field, which I can only compare to the charms you apply to brooms, to move."

"Charlotte is right in that. We manipulate the artificial gravity fields around the ships to fly. Just like the charms on a broom allows it to fly." Nikolai said with a grin.

"Very interesting. It seems that what can be done with a charm can also be done with a specialized device. Please continue with your explanation Admiral."

"As we said, the ship flies using standard sub-light engines and has inter-system hyper drive system. The hyper drive system allows us to open a portal into hyper space and travel from one place to another in a fraction of the time it would take with the sub-light engines. It is a specialised form of faster-than-light travel. Much faster than the standard Faster-than-Light engines that or ancestors used to travel here."

"Faster than light? That's a wonderful concept. How long will this ship take to reach earth from here?"

"With the sub-light engines, even our long lived race would have to go through multiple generations. With the hyper-drive I have installed, a little over an hour. It isn't the fastest we have, but I thought that it was better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. It carries a payload of twelve drones with two multiphasic rapid fire pulse laser, designated 180-RFL and one heavy dark matter railgun designed for siege."

"I didn't even understand most of what you said, but from your expression, I will take it that the ship packs a punch. What else?"

"Oh it packs a punch alright. It has enough firepower to singlehandedly defeat a Goa'uld fleet of a single Ha'tak, with its full complement of Al'kesh and Death Gliders." Nikolai said with a feral grin. When he saw that none of the terrans understood what he said, he sighed and said, "The Goa'uld are a parasitic worm like race that bonds with an unwilling human host and uses them as their bodies. The Goa'uld have most of the human civilizations under their control in the galaxy at the moment. They use scavenged technology belonging to us from the start of our colonization of the galaxy."

"I see. How powerful do you believe them to be?"

"Powerful and numerous enough to overwhelm us, but they are ignorant of us and the Furlings at the moment and only have dealings with the Asgard. Anyway, the ship has on board multiphasic shielding arrays in a one-to-one redundancy, along with a cloaking field. And that's that. I give you my baby, the Aethon Class Fighter-Interceptor."

"Can you explain what multiphasic means? I heard that term quite number of times in the explanation."

"It will require a lot of technical theory before you can understand. Keep working with us and you will understand what we mean. Just know that the term refers to multiple quantum phases."

"Oh yes. I have read a treatise on Quantum Physics. When you say multiphasic you mean that it exists in several overlapping dimensions at the same time, right?"

"Incredible Director. I was under the impression that only the new bloods were acquainted with science."

"As interesting as this conversation is, I am sure that everyone wants to continue with the tour?" Mithas said interrupting the duo before they got into a discussion about the intricacies of dimensions.

"Right you are Mithas. Admiral, it seems that our conversation will have to wait until a later date." Nikolai just nodded before as Harry activated the transporter and teleported them all to the hanger.

"This is the hanger. The small ships you see are called Gate-Ships or as some of the younger ones call then, Puddle Jumpers. They are designed to carry supplies and personnel through an active Astria Porta. That over there is the prototype Aethon Class Fighter-Interceptor we have ready rightly named the Aethon. I am sure you will recognize the name from Greek mythology. Now, everyone aboard the Gate-Ships. No more than eight to a ship along with a pilot and co-pilot."

"High Chancellor, GS-0223 and GS-1203 are ready for immediate departure as you requested, sir!" A girl in her early teens said approaching the group. The girl was wearing overall type robes with a data padd on in one hand and a shining PNA its wrist. The girl had shiny long hair which was shocking pink. Tonks chuckled and matched the girl.

"Thank you Matilda. Everyone, this is Matilda Osborne. She is the head of the Maintenance Department." Harry said introducing the girl to the group. The girls ice blue eyes shined with excitement as she nodded to all the greetings she received before a frown graced her face. "It was nice meeting you all, but I have to head to engineering immediately. There has been a coolant leakage again!"

Harry nodded to Matilda as the girl vanished in a flash of white light. Soon afterwards, the group separated with Harry and Yuri manning one of the Gate Ships while the other was being piloted by Nikolai and Charlotte. Daphne, Astoria, Susan, Neville, Nymphadora, Croaker, Remus and Amelia sat with the Emrys duo while the rest sat in the Gate Ship piloted by Nikolai and Charlotte.

"Harry? What is structure we just flew over? The one under that massive shimmering ward?" Tonks asked with interest as she watched the holographic image of the outside of the Gate Ship as it flew over the newly completed garden world, that's was to become the new home world of the Nova Alterans, Nova Celestis.

"Oh that is the Orichalcum baking plant we developed to artificially prepare different grades of Orichalcum. The mineral has the unique property to absorb natural ZPE and undergoes certain structural rearrangements. Depending on the amount of ZPE the ore has absorbed, Orichalcum is separated into seven grades. Natural Orichalcum is rare and artificially created ones are the Grade 7, the worst kind. Nicholas told us that certain minerals and crystals needed, for the lack of a better word, baking in high concentrations of ambient magic. We took that concept and applied it to create the Baker to mass produce any grade of Orichalcum we need."

"Orichalcum? Never heard of that substance. What is it?" Remus asked with interest when Croaker gasped in realization. "Orichalcum is said to be the rarest of minerals in existence. The ancient texts say that Atlantis used to mine and manufacture their greatest technologies with it!"

"Not quite. Most of the natural reserves of Orichalcum were depleted about twelve million years ago. Other than that, you are quite right in that we produce our greatest technological marvels with Orichalcum and sometimes Orichalcum-Naquadah composites. You know Naquadah as Mithril." Yuri explained as Harry made some corrections to the course as the ship flew over a massive forest. Each of the trees were nearly a three hundred feet high and if any of the Wizards and Witches knew what to look for, they would recognize that many of the trees were supposed to be extinct on earth.

"The planet is so beautiful. I wonder what kind of plants can be found here!" Neville exclaimed as he watched before blushing at the sudden attention he drew on himself.

"That's the spirit Neville!" Harry exclaimed with mirth. "You should always be on the lookout for new knowledge. Nothing is greater than the power knowledge bestows on us."

"Thanks!" Neville mumbled as the rest of the group gasped at the sight on the horizon.

A massive structure rose high into the air. The buildings had a mix of architectural marvels from all across the known middle east. Vaunted domed buildings. High towers and turrets. Glinting bridges made of what seemed to be some kind of crystalline stone. In the middle of the city was a place for a small City Ship to land on. There were small domed structures protected by shimmering barriers from which, conduits ran into the ground. Rivers were flowing through the city with gardens spattering all across the width, giving the city appealing aesthetic features. The whole city was situated on a wide expanse of plains filled with the most vibrant green grass any of them had ever seen. The whole city was alive with activity. Alterans, Nox, Asgard and Furlings were seen walking about, trading, relaxing and conversing.

As the Gate Ship neared the city, a massive dome shimmered into existence for a moment as the ship passed through it before coming to land near the area where the City Ship dock is situated. The group walked out of the Gate Ship and saw that the other ship was docked on another platform near them.

"Welcome High Chancellor, High Councillor, Councillors, and most esteemed guests. I am Tyranus, the Chief Administrator of this beloved City of Nova Celestis." Said a boy in his late teens. The boy had long blonde hair, pulled up in a ponytail and deep brown eyes. Tyranus was attired in the traditional amber robes of an administrator.

"Good to see you as well Tyranus. How is the City coming along?"

"On schedule High Chancellor. Sector VII is to begin construction within forty-right hours. The projected date of completion with the compliment of twelve of the new Nyx Constructors is a hundred and twenty-seven hours. If you would increase the compliment by four, we project that the sector will be done within ninety-eight hours."

"Not happening Tyranus. Make do with what you got. We can't spare much Orichalcum for such trivial jobs. You can request for a compliment of the standard Constructors to increase the efficiency. Now let's keep the bureaucracy out of discussion for the moment, we have guests."

"As you wish High Chancellor. I have multiple Raiders ready sir. If you would please follow me!" Tyranus said as he walked away with a slight slouch in his posture that Amelia picked up as defeat.

"He has been requesting more constructors, hasn't he?"

"That's right Amelia. He is a bit overzealous and wishes that the City be finished within the next month. We don't have any need for such a large city at the moment, so I have advised him to slow down the construction a bit, but he is a bit stubborn."

"There are always a few in every bureaucratic system. Don't give in to those kinds of people, Harry."

"Don't plan to Amelia. I have a whole race to lead, he only has a city. My priorities are much too different from his besides, the essentials of the city have already been completed. The sections left are the additional housing and market sectors and the militia section. After Sector VII, the external walls made of Trinium-Naquadah composite are to be built."

"Why that composition?" Croaker asked only for Flitwick to rush up and exclaim, "What an impressive City Harry! In all my years, I have never seen a better planned nor a more pleasing one!"

"Thank you for the compliment Professor. Now, what was Croaker asking?"

"He was asking why the planned outer wall was to be constructed with Trinium-Naquadah composite. To aswer your question Director, Trinium is the best know substance for kinetic absorption and Naquadah is the best for energetic absorption. The composite wall is a failsafe that even if the shields fail, the enemy ground troop would be unable to easily penetrate the city. Besides, the wall will serve as a raised ground for our forces during a siege."

"Are there even a race out there that would pose a threat to you Harry?" Flitwick asked with shock.

"Not any know ones, but it is better to be prepared, don't you think?"

"Absolutely Harry, though you just sounded like an old friend of mine. He is a Master Auror by the name of Alastor Moody. His catchphrase is Constant Vigilance." Flitwick said with a chuckle as Amelia added, "And a pain in my behind. He is a bit loopy and tends to curse first and ask questions later. Even then, I wouldn't wish to lose him. He is the very best the Auror Corps have."

"Interesting. Dad's journals said that Mad-Eye Moody was the one who trained him. Is he the same person?"

Everyone who knew Moody chuckled as McGonagall said, "Mad-eye is an apt description of him. Not only does he have prosthetic eye that swirls around randomly, he is as loopy as an old man can get!"

"He seems like my kind of guy!" Nikolai said only for Charlotte to step on his feet causing him to yelp in pain.

"Hell if I allow you to learn from another paranoid person! I don't think our race would survive!"

"Alright you two. Let's head out, shall we! Yuri and I will take one of the raiders. Susan, Neville, Daphne, Astoria, Tonks and Professor Filtwick will accompany us. Elder Greengrass', Elder Tonks', Amelia, Croaker and Remus will be riding in the second Raider with Nikolai as the pilot. Hagrid, McGonagall, Madam Longbottom will ride with Charlotte in the third Raider."

With his orders clear, Harry and Yuri boarded the first Raider with the kids and Flitwick. The rest quickly boarded the other two before Harry activated his Raider, causing it to hover a few feet in the sky. Before rising much higher and shooting off at a speed the best racing brooms haven't had a hope to reach yet.

"The city is beautiful Ms. Pierre. How long has it truly been in construction?"

"A little over one and a half months, by the Terran Lunar Cycles, Madam Longbottom. Construction has actually been reduced. Previously, there were three sets of twelve Nyx Constructors, our most advanced and best constructor technology developed by Harry himself, on the job. Two of the Six Sectors already completed were the most massive and integral. After all, they are the Sectors handling power generation, hygiene, and administration and the Internal Security Section."

"Impressive. And if I would wish for my whole estates to be relocated to this planet, will that be possible?"

Minerva looked startled at the very subtle political manoeuvre, but Charlotte giggled and said, "It is possible, if you would take up Nova Alteran Citizenship along with our way of life."

Minerva didn't realize what Charlotte said, but Augusta stared at the blonde girl with narrowed eyes. She understood the subtle warning she was being given. The beliefs of the Purebloods were not welcome by the Nova Alterans.

"Thank you for the answer. Though I didn't expect it."

"No need to thank me. I chose to become the Councillor of Education because I prioritize the spreading of knowledge. You can say that it is one of my duties. Ah, we are coming close to the outer wall now. If you focus, you will spot one of the ten cannons mounted on tall spires. Those are the Multiphasic Ion Cannons we use to disable enemy technology. Unfortunately, a direct hit for one of those cannons will leave any biological being dead from electrocution. Even our personal shielding units would be easily bypassed."

"I have been meaning to ask. Why such intense security? I heard you calling Admiral Kozlov, paranoid, but is he really this bad?"

"Unfortunately, he is, but I don't blame him. We are at a critical position. If we fail to rise from the ashes, then our race will end with us. Our legacy will be lost, and our enemies will, in time, wreck destruction on all that we have fostered." Charlotte said with a sad smile.

Minerva and Augusta nodded before Hagrid said, "You know som'thing. None of you 'ver showed us any critters?"

Minerva and Augusta groaned a Charlotte chuckled and said, "That's because the planet hasn't been seeded with animal life yet. We are letting the plant life become stable before constructing a stable habitat of creatures."

"I see. Can you let me 'now when you are done?"

"Of course Mr. Hagrid. I would love to teach you about the creatures that will be inhabiting Nova Celestis."

The three Raiders came to rest on the grassy ground in front of a raised stone platform that had a Astria Porta embedded in it. In front of the Astria Porta was the Dialling Device. The Astria Porta was one of the few Fourth Generation ones with no backlash, no connection delay and holographic status display.

With a wave of his hand, Harry activated the gate and had it connect with the one on Tartarus. Addressing his guests, Harry said, "We shall now be returning to Tartarus. I would love to take you home for here, but this gate is not on the galactic network and can only connect with certain other gates."

"You can make private gates?"

"Of course we can. This one only has permission to connect with certain addresses. All other addresses will cause the gate to not activate at all and display that it is not permitted to connect to other gates. Anyway, please follow me. The time on Terra is quite late. Some of us do have a Solstice meeting to attend tomorrow."

"You are right Harry!" Croaker said looking at his pocket watch. "It is nearly ten in the night!"

With the time established, the group hurried through the gate. All of them need to be in bed soon. Harry was the last to leave, but before he did, he mentally sent out a few orders. First, he ordered the Raiders to return to the city. Then he sent orders to the Gate Ships to return to Tartarus.

"Welcome back to Tartarus! High Chancellor, Madam McKinnon has finished her treatment and have gained full control of her Lycanthropy. Councillor Flamel wishes to inform you that she is now resting and will be fully recovered from the ordeal within a couple of hours."

"Thank you Gunther. Please dial the Gryffon. I shall be escorting our guests back home before returning."

"Right away High Chancellor!"

"Harry, is there a partial cure of Lycanthropy?" Croaker asked with shock.

"There is. I was the first one cured. While the changes the virus makes to our DNA isn't reversible yet, the loss of control and forced transformation during the Full Moon should be nulled. I can transform into a gigantic dire wolf like an animagus now." Lupin answered with a cheerful grin. "We are waiting for the next full moon to see how it will affect us, but we are hopeful that the moon will have no effect."

"Interesting, may we see this controlled werewolf transformation? That is, if you don't mind!" Croaker asked with McGonagall and Flitwick showing more interest than the rest.

"It would be my pleasure, though for future reference Councillor Flamel has named the transformation and those who can do it a Lycan. I would prefer that everyone refers to me as a Lycan and not a werewolf!" Lupin said with pride, for the first time showing pride in being a werewolf and not cursing his state.

Before anyone could even blink, Lupin was gone and in his place was a massive dire wolf. The fur of the wolf was deep tawny colour, like that of a lion's coat of fur. He was nearly five feet tall at the shoulders and seven feet from tip of his black nose to the tip of his tail. The most astonishing thing was that while other werewolves took the form of a hybrid between a wolf and a man, this one was a complete wolf. Just like Remus said, it was more of a Dire Wolf animagus transformation than a monstrous one. The fur had streaks of light tawny fur and the eyes were like glowing amber.

The appearance of the massive wolf had caused many of the women and all of the children from earth to scream in fright when a gentle voice echoed thorough their minds. "Fear not. I am in complete control, though I would advise from pricking your fingers on my fangs!"

Everyone stared at Lupin in shock as he gave them a fanged grin before Amelia sighed in exasperation and said, "I forgot that you were also a marauder. How is it that you are communicating with us? It could come in handy if the DMLE can learn it."

Lupin was about to turn back when Astoria walked forward and started running her hands through Lupin's fur. Soon all the other kids and even some of the adults were following her example, commenting on how astounding it was. "I am sorry to say Amelia, but I don't know if it is a trait of a Lycan or just my special Alteran gift. Kozlov and Harry have telepathy as well, though Yuri and Charlotte don't, or at least not in any appreciable degree to be able to communicate with only thoughts. They do have powerful empathic abilities instead."

"Remus, may I see if the animagus reversal spell works on you?" Minerva asked taking out her wand.

"Go ahead Professor, but for the record, Councillor Flamel has already checked to see if the transformation can be forcefully reversed by any of the known and some of the more esoteric reversal spells. All failed!"

"If someone of Nicholas Flamel's stature failed, I doubt I will succeed, but just humour me. I may know some spells that Mr. Flamel may have over looked. After all, his speciality is Alchemy, not Transfiguration." With that stated, McGonagall started casting spells. Lupin sat on his haunches and grinned as each and every spell failed until McGonagall casted a spell that causes a ripple of change to travel over his body before they reverted back.

"That was a disconcerting feeling. What spell was that Professor?"

"I would like to know that as well Professor. A spell that can force a werewolf back into human for, even temporarily would be very useful." Croaker asked with Amelia nodding in agreement.

"It was a spell that I have been developing for some time now. I believe that you all know about the Transmogrification Curse?" When all the adults along with Harry and the other three Nova Alteran councillors nodded, McGonagall continued with a heavy heart, "As you know, there is no known counter curse for it. only the Mandrake Draught can restore those affected by it. What many of you may not know is that, depending on the intent, the curse can petrify or perform a complex, near irreversible transfiguration. If the victim is transfigured, there is no hope of saving them, as the curse eats away at the life force of the victim at an astounding rate. I lost my husband to it. Shay was a Hitwizard and fought against Grindlewald. He was hit by the curse and was transfigured so that his inside and outside were reversed. He died within moments from the shock."

"I am sorry for your loss Professor. I didn't know." Lupin said with a frown which looked quite funny on his wolfish face.

"Don't worry about it Remus. I have had a long time to come to terms with it. Anyway, I started developing the spell to prevent such a thing from happening to someone else. I nearly succeeded but interestingly, it only temporarily reverses the transfiguration version of the curse and not the petrification one."

"Then why use it on a werewolf?"

"Simple Algeron. I have used it on a werewolf during He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's campaign. The spell causes the werewolf to temporarily revert for just a second, but that second of disorientation is more than enough to take them down."

"Then why wasn't it published? Why have you kept this spell hidden?" Croaker demanded with anger in his tone.

"I wanted to, but Albus stopped me. He said that the spell would cause many of the biased families to misuse the spell and hunt down even the innocent Werewolves. I didn't want a genocide on my hands." McGonagall said with steel only of Amelia to snort.

"Only Albus would say something like that. We could have made it a prescribed spell and only Law Enforcement would be able to use it. If anyone was found to be using it and was not in self-defence, they could easily be charged with intentional harm with the intention to start a riot among the werewolves. Many werewolves would thank you for inventing the spell Minerva!"

"I agree with Amelia, Professor! I would have loved to know that there was a spell that could have prevent me from harming someone while transformed!"

"I think I know why Albus prevented you from publishing your invention Minerva. I can guarantee that you would be awarded an Order of Merlin. That would have awarded you a seat on the Wizengamot. You would become privy to Albus's machinations. Machinations that he would rather we don't learn about. Take young Harry's placement and the related events for example. You and Hagrid knew, but we were never informed. Albus only sees the forest and not the welfare of the individual trees. His main goal is the greater good. A greater good that only he is privy to and is willing to sacrifice anyone he deems necessary."

"Hush Filius. This isn't the place to discuss such things!" McGonagall said pointedly looking at the kids. Filius realised his blunder and nodded before saying, "Anyway, Harry, Yuri, Charlotte, Admiral Kozlov, it was nice meeting you, but as you can see, it is very late back on Earth, so we must get going!"

Everyone watched as Flitwick raised his right hand and caused a hologram of the time to be projected from his newly acquired CNA. Many of the elder wizards and witches were shocked at how easily Flitwick was manipulating his CAN.

"You are right there, Professor Flitwick. Please, after you!" Harry said as Flitwick nodded and walked through the event horizon and vanished with Harry right behind him. Yuri looked around before she shrugged and followed.

"You all follow. We won't be joining you this time. I am sure that Nikolai has a meeting with the intelligence officer soon and I have to meet up with Headmistress Flamel to design the curriculum for the academy." Charlotte said before bidding the group a good night and vanishing in a flash of white light.

A/N: Hey Everyone! I hope you like this one. Enjoy the new chapter.

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