AN: normally I don't put AN up on top anymore but I thought I would bring this out. I know a lot of people are asking for longer chapters because I am going to be gone for several days; you all need to understand that with the serious time restraint I have right now even finding the time when I'm not distracted to write out the 2K chapters I do is hard.. so until I have time to truly sit down and just write chapters will be whatever the hell I can pump out in the hour or two hours I have to sit down and take a break.
Donum Deae – the wand
Sitting along the sands of Costa del sol Spain Sephiroth twirled his wand around in his hand, green eyes absently watching as the wood twirled around in his long fingers. He had been out here for a good portion of the day; why he choose here? Simply for the name, while it may not have been the Costa del Sol he was used to there was a sense of home sitting here and simply hearing the name spoken by the natives.
Someone had tried calling in a few hours ago but he had simply ignored his PHS not even bothering to look at the screen to see who it was. His mind was a million miles away at the moment; he had always wanted a loving parent, but Molly was just hitting on every last nerve he had at the moment. Jenova was a almost constant presence in his mind though she was far too weak to make another attack on him, her voice was constantly whispering at the back of his mind wearing him down little by little. The lessons with Snape had helped a little and having everyone around him helped a lot but there was only so much he could do.
He needed to find her and destroy her once and for all, he had a very sneaky suspicion that if he found the black materia he would find her as well. Something was just pulling at him telling them the two were in very close vicinity of the other.
Sighing softly he once more twirled his wand around in his hand; his wand was completely useless against Voldemort. They were brother wands and as such they would not work against the other, all his attacks would fall flat as would Voldemort's. he couldn't have that, he didn't want to rely completely on magic for this fight but it was a good back up until he could get in close to the man and decapitate him.
That meant he needed a new wand.
A frown pulled at his lips as he studied the wand, Ollivander had stated that the wand chose the wizard; yet Genesis, Cloud and his father had all theirs created by Genesis and the wands seemed to respond to them better than most the wands he had seen. Was it because of cores?
Genesis used one of his feathers as the core, the Jenova cells saturating the feather responded to Genesis and helped to strengthen and channel the naturally powerful magic user even more. While Genesis might have been cured of the degradation he still held Jenova cells in him, but they weren't as strong as Sephiroth's own.
His dad's wand core was a hair from each of his demons (Genesis said that was an experience all onto itself collecting those.) in ebony wood. Cloud's was a marvel that any wizard would love to get their hands on; his wand was made from the remaining wood of the trees from the forgotten city, his core was a fragment of Diamond WEAPON left over from the creation of First Tsurugi. That was a very powerful wand that only answered to Golden WEAPON.
He needed something as equally powerful as his lovers and the other WEAPONS, especially if Jenova might become involved in all of this. Blinking his wand stopped mid twirl a smirk crossing his lips, he knew exactly what he was going to do.
Standing up he quickly brushes the golden sand from his backside and ported back to the house of Black. It was about mid morning back in England but he didn't care, he wasn't in the mood to talk to Molly at the moment.
Moving over to his beloveds stuff he started to root around in it knowing he always had these on him, key thing is was where they were. Finding what he wanted he smirked grabbing the items and shoving them into his pocket before racing downstairs to where he could feel Genesis was.
He hadn't gotten more than a few feet though before he was tackled by a silver haired demon that had become his permanent leech. "dad!" Kadaj instantly latched onto him hugging him with all his mako enhanced strength. "'daj, whole point is not to send me back to the life stream.." the arms around him loosened only a little and with a long suffering sigh Sephiroth looked down to his little leech. Kadaj simply looked back up at him with bright green eyes identical to his own, the boy knew how to work every soft spot the General had.
"We've been worried about you, Yazoo could feel you porting all over the place today but we couldn't get a hold of you." Sephiroth gently set a hand on Kadaj silver hair; the boy was only a year younger than himself at this point but around Sephiroth he acted like a young child.
"How is Yazoo?" he remembered the middle triplet wasn't feeling good. "Still not feeling good, but it's just a stomach bug some foods don't agree with him, Loz is with him."
"hmm I'll go see him before I leave." The arms tightened even more around him if that was possible. Looking down he saw the biggest puppy eyes ever, Kadaj had been spending way too much time with Zachary.
"Don't go dad, Molly is a bitch I'm going to decapitate her if she says one more bad thing about you." A silver brow slowly rose at this, Molly was speaking ill of him? Or was Kadaj exaggerating again. "Alright, you may come with me, but I expect you to behave yourself and leave Soba here."
Kadaj looked as if he had just been told to leave his favorite toy behind, "but.. what if we get attacked?" chuckling softly Sephiroth ran a hand gently along the young face. "That is what dad is for." Leaning down he kissed Kadaj's cheek gently, yes he had taken on the roll of father..wasn't his first choice but if they insisted he would comply. Frankly it was easier and less of a headache if he just gave into the spirited silverlett next to him. "First I need to get something from Genesis." Disentangling himself from his remnant Sephiroth headed down to the kitchen where he could hear everyone.
He could hear Molly down there as well, 'damn it!' he did not want to deal with her and he knew he would the minute he walked in. oh well he was only getting one thing and then leaving again. Moving into the room he ignored Mrs. Weasley hearing her shouting him name but did greet his fellow Shinra remnants. Moving over to Genesis ne leaned down hugging him tightly. "Gen I need a favor, summon I for me."
Blinking at the strange request Genesis looked back at his lover. "Why?" he was suspicious, normally Sephiroth never asked him to summon his wing, it was a reminded to all that they were monsters.
"Just do it please.. and lose the dramatics." Sephiroth smirked as Genesis dropped his left hand, "kill joy.." Genesis growled but summoned his wing. Mrs. Weasley, Sirius and the other Weasley's that didn't know Genesis well gasped in shock and leapt back as a giant black wing unfurled.
A soft smile played on Sephiroth's face as he began to run his hands up and down the beautiful black wing. "Seph what are you.. OW!" Genesis jerked his wing out of Sephiroth's grasp and wrapped it around himself protectively. Ice blue eyes glared over the black appendage seeing the silky black feather now clutched in Sephiroth's hand.
"Thanks Gen, Kadaj come on." Kadaj laughing moved up to Sephiroth happily though the smile quickly left his face as Molly moved over to stand in front of them. "And where do you think you two are going?"
"Out obviously." Sephiroth said green eyes as cold as ice once more. "You are not taking Kadaj with you, neither of you are leaving this house."
Sephiroth's eyes turned to pure steel, oh that was it! Moving away from Kadaj he got right up into Molly's own personal bubble. His aura flaring just like it had in Nibelheim; it screamed a man on the edge and someone you did not want to fuck with.
"Let's get one thing straight Molly. Harry Potter is dead, I am Sephiroth Valentine, General of the Shinra army.. Calamities son, the nightmare. I do not need your permission to do what I want, and you will not tell me what I can and cannot do with my sons. The only person that can dare to give me an order is Director Lazard and Rufus Shinra, unless you have suddenly become those two I will never take an order from you." Drawing back he looked over to Sirius seeing his shocked look, he had never seen Harry act like that though he had to remind himself that this wasn't Harry anymore this was Sephiroth.
"He's right Molly, none of these boys are children anymore." Molly actually rounded on Sirius causing the man to shrink back. As they said in the muggle world you never got between a mother bear and her cubs.
"Mom drop it before something happens." Zack pleaded, he knew what Seph would do if angered and it was not pretty. While she may be his second mother she was still the mother of several other boys that weren't remnants.
Ron though couldn't have chosen a worse time to decide to defend his mother. "Harry back off." Sephiroth's green eyes narrowed on Ron seeing his ears turning red and quickly. "Stay out of this Ronald."
Seeing this was going to end up in a massive fight Genesis stood and grabbed Seph pulling him from the room. He only did this in extreme cases and this was going to become one of those. For once though Sephiroth did not fight him, instead he leaned in against his lover those angry eyes flickering in glow intensity. Kadaj kept to his side his hands gently holding his arm as a very young child would.
"Sephiroth, why don't you come back to my place till term starts, I honestly don't see it getting any better here as long as the Weasley's are here." Sephiroth sighed softly his eyes dimming as they looked up to his lover. "I was hoping to spend Christmas with Sirius, Remus, and Zack." It had been tradition for the SOLDIER to all have Christmas together, Angeal was going to come up as well so they could uphold that tradition once more.
"We'll host it at my house, we'll bring the Turks along and Cloud.. start a new tradition have the whole family there."
"I don't think Molly will let Reno, Zack and Cissnei leave." This would suck royally, the Shinra version of Christmas was the one time of year that Sephiroth actually enjoyed. While the dull parties thrown by Shinra Sr. were boring as hell the later night and next morning were some of the most enjoyable that he could remember.
"Alright, will you take Yazoo and Loz over, I have something I'm going to do first and I'm taking Kadaj with me." Genesis nodded slightly, he had come to care for the remnants as if they were his own children, he loved them all though Kadaj was a little too clingy to Sephiroth for his taste. "Where will you be so I can bring you there?"
"Diagon Alley."
"Alright I'll come find you once I get the boys situated."
Smiling to his lover Sephiroth kissed him gently. "Thank you Genesis.." he still needed to kick his ass for the BS at Nibelheim though. Grabbing hold of Kadaj he pulled on both their sets of Jenova cells and ported them both out.
It was strange walking around Diagon Alley when it wasn't packed with students. The street was much quieter, the normal flocks of witches gossiping and wizards bartering sales were not nearly as thick. People though were giving Kadaj and himself a wide birth, most likely it was due to the recently rebuilt Daily Prophet. To this day they were still trying to tarnish Sephiroth's name, it was the Wutai wars all over again; but it didn't bug him, there was going to be ignorant people no matter where he went. This world seemed to just be filled with a hell of a lot more of them than Midgar did.
While at Hogwarts he did get the normal fan mail, he was also getting the death threats with hexes and curses put into them. After Zack had gotten hit with a rather nasty one his father and Genesis had started to intercept his mail and any that had hexes or anything dangerous in them were returned to sender with an even nastier jinx in return. One thing you never did was mess with a materia masters lover, or a Turks child. He actually needed to ask his dad if that last one was out of saint Mungo's yet.
This was Kadaj first time in Diagon Alley and so far, he was anything but impressed. "Dad, why are all witches and wizards stuck in the dark ages?" chuckling Sephiroth set a hand on his child's head leading him towards the south end of Diagon Alley. "I asked myself that same thing when I first came here, it never made sense to me why they insist upon staying in the middle ages instead of upgrading. The least they could do is allow pen's instead of quills, it took me nearly half a year to learn how to write with one of those and my hand writing is still horrible with them."
He had actually gotten Gen to sneak him in some standard ball point pens so that he could do his assignments with ease and not fight with the damn quill all the time. "Japan's different, they embrace muggle technology and have found a way to work magic in with it, they actually laugh at you all."
That wouldn't surprise Sephiroth in the least, the Japanese were like the Wutai, proud people that once a large force over threw them they began to advance at an accelerated rate. Wutainese were some of their top developers at Shinra, their minds just seemed to be hard wired to learn quickly and think far in advance of what people had.
Skirting around a group of gossiping elderly witches Sephiroth moved up to the dark shop that had been the place he was looking forward to the most when he first arrived at Diagon Alley five years ago.
"Ollivander, wand maker.. Dad why are we going to a wand shop?"
Stopping at the door Sephiroth turned back to look at his remnant seeing the confusion in those eyes. "The wand I received as Harry Potter is the brother wand of Voldemort's the wands won't work against the other.." aka he didn't want to be helpless if he needed his wand. Seeming to understand what Sephiroth was saying Kadaj nodded moving up to enter the shop with his father.
Stepping into the old shop Sephiroth was hit with the memories of Harry stepping in for the first time. "I wondered when I would be seeing you in here Mr. Potter.." he could still remember the voice of the old wand maker. Moving up to the counters he looked back seeing the same old wizard moving about among his shop, it always amazed him how many wands were here at times he wondered how old some of these were.
"Mr. Potter.. I wish I could say I am surprised to see you back." Ollivander moved up to the counter his silver eyes almost seeming to look through Sephiroth. "No.. no longer Mr. Potter, I can see in your eyes that you have become someone else. Someone far older, far stronger than Mr. Potter was."
Kadaj was giving the man a wary look, it was strange hearing someone actually believing what was clearly in front of them. "You have come for a new wand, one more fitting of your new self." The silver eyes seemed to sparkle in their depths, the excitement of creating a new wand, much stronger than any he had ever made before lighting his eyes.
"Your ability to pick up on the things around you has always astounded me Mr. Ollivander." Reaching into his pocket Sephiroth withdrew the items he wanted for the core laying them down on the table. Blinking Ollivander gently picked up all three items; they were feathers, feathers unlike he had ever seen before. One was a pure white with a softness he had felt in no other feather, the power inside was strong, it power though felt almost loyal and honorable. Setting it down he examined the last two, both feathers were as black as night though both very distinctive showing they were not from the same creature. One while black had an almost crimson hue to it, the power was darker, but there was drive and passion almost like liquid fire. The final one had a blue/green hue to it and the power was extraordinary, it felt exactly like the power rolling off Sephiroth in waves.
The one thing he could feel between the three feathers were they were all connected by two forces, a power that saturated the very fibers and also a bond forged by the owners of the feathers.
"These powers are extreme, are you sure you wish to combine them?" Sephiroth nodded, Angeal, Genesis and himself together once more.. as it always should have been. "Don't worry, they should be find together."
Ollivander nodded already thinking about what would be needed for such powerful wands. "When would you need this new wand by?"
"By the new term if it's possible, if not as soon as you can have it completed. I'm afraid though that at least with two of those cores there is no way to obtain more if something happens." Angeal and himself had yet to resprout their wings, Angeal may never but Sephiroth was waiting for his own. he had had the wing for as long as he could remember, ever since he was a child he had been able to call it forth.
Ollivander made a noise in the back of his throat picking up the feathers gently. "I shall send an owl when it's finished, if it's past the beginning of term I will let you know by owl and send it to Hogwarts."
"Actually can you have it sent to this person?" Sephiroth quickly scrawled his father's name on a piece of parchment. "Rumor has it Umbridge is searching the post and is likely to take it if she discovers it." The old man smiled and nodded before heading off into the back room once more.
"Ready to go home?" Sephiroth asked his remnant, Kadaj had been surprisingly quiet through the whole thing. Turning from where he was examining a collection of wands the younger boy nodded once more latching himself to Sephiroth's arm smiling brightly.
"Leech."
AN: alright this is probably the last chapter until I'm in NC, we'll see how the drive across country is and how much I can get done though I may use that time to write more of Snowday or Life long. I don't know if I have a way to power my laptop in the truck so it may all be hand written stuff that I type out later. Though I have to ask is it really moving that slow for you guys? I feel like I'm rushing it to be honest.. but I also like longer stories I hate when things happen all with in 10 chapters.
So give this chapter the love it deserves, next chapter will be Christmas and then back to Hogwarts.