"Are you okay Harry? No one has seen you in days."

Harry looked up from the leather bound journal he was reading to see his best friend Hermione Granger Nee Weasley "Oh, sorry Hermione, I guess I just got caught up in this."

The brunette walked over and looked at the cover of the book with bore the symbol of a five point cross "Something interesting I assume?"

Harry just nodded "Yeah, the goblins contacted me a week ago informing me of a vault in my mom's name, inside was this journal and a chest full of family artefacts."

Hermione looked up in surprised "From your mother's side of the family. What kind of artefacts would they have, aren't they muggles."

Harry nodded as he opened the journal to the first page "This journal speaks of a race of beings know as Quincy."

"I remember reading about them, it wasn't much but basically it said that the Quincy where a type of humans who were capable of harnessing the ambient magic in the atmosphere and could use it to form weapons which they used to slay monsters. I also read that a couple of hundred years ago they were all wiped out."

The emerald eyed nineteen year old nodded "Yeah that's a basic summary, apparently my mother and through her me, are descended from one of the few survivors."

"Wow, that's amazing Harry, do you mind if I read that once you're done?"

Harry just shrugged before he took of his glasses and rubbed his eyes "I guess so, as long as you promise not to tell anyone about this."

Hermione nodded "Of course Harry, this is your secret to tell not mine, my lips are sealed. So does that journal detail how to harness magic like the Quincy did?"

The young black haired teenager smiled as he placed his glasses back on "It does seem that eventually it changed from a skill that could be taught to a genetic ability passed down from generation to generation."

The brown haired woman nodded "Makes sense to me. So I take it you've already practiced" seeing the young black haired man smile sheepishly she shook her head "Show me."

Harry just nodded and stood up, he then raised his left hand which now had a Quincy Cross hanging from around his wrist, and he closed his eyes and concentrated for a moment before there was a flash of light and a bow made from pure light magic formed "It takes a second for me to form it, it should get easier the more I practice until I can form it as easy as breathing but this is the basic form, the 'Kojaku'."

Hermione examined the bow carefully for several minutes until she noticed that Harry was sweating "Is it difficult to keep formed for long periods?"

The black haired young man nodded as he let the Kojaku fade "Only because this is like my second time forming it, like I said it'll get easier with time."

"Can't we just make a special bow for you to channel your Quincy powers through?"

Harry shook his head in response "No, it says that master Quincy's bow's take on a physical metallic form instead of looking like raw magic. I'm nowhere near that point, maybe after a couple of years I'll be at that point which will be awesome" seeing Hermione motion for him to continue he did "It says that masters could fire over a thousand light arrows at once."

Hermione looked impressed "That is incredible. I know I won't be able to stop your from practicing, just promise me that you'll be careful alright and get out more often. Now Molly has been bugging us to get you over for tea so go have a shower and get dressed."

Harry just nodded "Fine I promise Hermione."

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"You know alcohol and you don't get along Harry."

Harry just scoffed and finished his glass before moving to pour himself another only for Hermione to summon the bottle away from him "What do you want Hermione."

"I want to know why you called of the wedding. Ginny is devastated and it took me, Arthur and George to stop Ron from coming over here and smacking some sense into you."

Harry just laughed as he placed his cup in the sink and then leaned against while looking at his best friend "Alright I'll tell you what I told Ginny, I'm not in love with her, I don't think I ever was."

Hermione shook her head "Explain."

Harry took a deep breath to calm himself as he began to play with his Quincy cross "You know Ron wasn't the only one who had a crush on you back in Hogwarts, I liked you to but was too afraid to say anything, and then I learned Ron liked you and I guess I just forced myself to like Ginny so I wouldn't have to face what I felt."

Hermione looked at him in shock "I never knew."

Harry just shrugged "Doesn't matter now, you're married and one of my best friends, I'm not going to come between you and Ron, that's why I never said anything, but I decided that it wasn't fair to Ginny to keep stringing her along when I don't feel the same way she does, I love her but I'm not in love with her."

"Wow."

Harry just chuckled as he led Hermione over to the lounge and set up his custom made chessboard, the white pieces were carved from white marble and the black pieces were carved from obsidian, Hermione and Ron had given it to him for his last birthday "First time I've seen you speechless."

Hermione sat down as if her body was on autopilot and moved a white pawn "And you told Ginny this?"

Harry nodded as he moved a pawn "Yeah, as you can imagine she didn't take it too well. She was screaming that I was lying and then came the tear filled anger, she smacked me you know."

Hermione nodded "I know how she'd react. What are you going to do now?"

Harry just shrugged as he took one of her pawns "Keep training my Quincy powers naturally. Other than that I've been learning several languages mainly Japanese and German, so I was thinking of traveling abroad."

Hermione just nodded in thought "Well it is a good idea, it will give the Weasley's a chance to calm down, and you should try doing some studying. Go back to muggle school, with your minor metamorphmagus abilities you could make yourself look younger, some goblin made fake I.D's and you could go back to school, get caught up on what you missed in your education when you went to Hogwarts."

Harry paused with his hand on his one remaining bishop piece "You and school geez, but it's not a bad idea."

"Of course it's a good idea Harry. How is your Quincy power's coming along?"

Harry smiled eager to tell her about his progress "It's going well, at the moment I'm trying to learn two techniques, Klavier which is German for Piano which lets me fire multiple arrows from one hand while holding the Kojaku. The other is a technique called Hirenkyaku which is an advanced Quincy movement technique, allowing the user to move at high speed by riding on the flow of Magic created below their feet."

Hermione smiled at him "That sounds difficult."

Harry just nodded as he looked carefully at the board "It is, Klavier will just take some practice but Hirenkyaku is so much more difficult, it's one of the more advanced Quincy techniques."

"Well I know you can do it, you always seem to be able to master the more difficult spells back in school where others couldn't, and I have no doubt that is still the case. You'll have Hirenkyaku mastered in no time."

Harry smiled at his friends faith in him "Maybe not mastered but I'll have it down to a level usable in combat at least. So you really think I should head overseas?"

The brunette witch just nodded "Sure, time away from the wizarding world and your fame will be good for you. Which are you more fluent in, Japanese or German?"

"Japanese."

"Then that's where you'll go. Travel around japan for a while, take in the sights and culture. Who knows maybe you'll meet a girl over there."

Harry just shook his head at his friend's enthusiasm "Who knew you could be all girly like Lavender and Parvarti."

"Are you saying that I'm not feminine Harry Potter?"

Harry just chuckled as he moved his knight "Checkmate."

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"So you're headed overseas huh."

Harry nodded and then pushed up his glasses as they began to slide down the bridge of his nose "Sure is Dudley."

Dudley Dursley just nodded as he walked alongside his cousin "So why did you come to tell me this, I mean we're not exactly close."

Harry merely shrugged "Our relationship may never be perfect but it's improved over the past couple of years, so I decided to come see you before I leave."

"When are you leaving anyway?"

"Once everything is settled at Gringotts, I'm just waiting on some I.D from them before leaving."

Dudley nodded in understanding "Hey while you're here you mind checking something out for me."

"What?"

"We'll lately a few people have gone missing in the forest area by the park, and a kid was attacked the other day, he claimed it was a three headed dog but the police just wrote it of as a child's imagination messing with his memories and say he was just attacked by a stray dog."

Harry nodded "Sounds like a Cerberus has taken up residence in the park, sure I'll head there and deal with now but then I have to get going."

Dudley nodded and gave his cousin a quick hug "Thanks for stopping by Harry, oh and just so you know I'm moving out, me and a work mate are renting a flat in London."

Harry smiled at his cousin "That's great news, good luck Dudley."

Dudley just smiled "I think you need the luck more Harry. Go get that thing."

Harry nodded and then watched his cousin walk away, he sighed but had a small smile on his face, and deep down he was glad he and Dudley had worked things out but knew that he would probably never speak with his Aunt and Uncle again. He looked around to gather his bearings and realised he was several blocks from the park so he began to make his way there.

He reached the park within ten minutes and looked around "Man I spent a lot of time here as a kid, anything to get out of the house."

He watched the kids running around screaming at each other as they played some kind of game and smiled, he then closed his eyes and focused his magic and began to stretch out his magic senses in the direction of the trees and quickly located the Cerberus and quickly crossed the park. As he did he caught sight of a young girl who appeared to be in her teens and was wearing glasses and had a slim figure, black hair styled in a short bob cut and violet eyes. He was surprised that when he looked at her she held his gaze; he would have thought that she would have looked away but she didn't.

She had obviously sensed his magical power when he stretched out his senses but put it to the back of his mind for now as he entered the woods. It took him several minutes of walking before he found himself standing in front of the Cerberus which had been sleeping, now two of its heads were awake and growling at him while the third was just waking up.

Harry grinned as he formed his Kojaku with a simple thought, it had taken a while but like he told Hermione he had been able to form his Kojaku as easily as breathing. Now his Kojaku was much more intricate, it had evolved to what the journal called Ginrei Kojaku.

The black haired Quincy stood still and waited for the now fully awake Cerberus to make the first move, it didn't take long for the Cerberus to lunge at him. Harry simply smirked before he vanished just as the Cerberus would have landed on him and reappeared above the Cerberus with his Ginrei Kojaku aimed at the beast and released three light arrows, one into the back of each head killing the Cerberus instantly. He ended the fight by landing behind the now dead Cerberus on one leg, his right hand still in his pants pocket as he Ginrei Kojaku faded.

"Childs play."

"That was most impressive."

Harry merely smiled as the girl from the park approached "I had a feeling you might follow me. My name is Harry."

The girl smiled as she crossed her arms under her small bust and a pair of large bat like wings emerged from her back "My name is Sona Sitri, heiress of the Sitri Clan, one of the 72 Pillars of Hell."

"A devil, I thought they were just stories made up by the ministry to explain sudden increases in magical abilities."

Sona merely smiled in response "Those wizards you speak of most likely made a contract with a powerful devil for more power."

"Is that why you're here, to make a contract with me, because if it is then I'm afraid you've wasted your time."

The Sitri heiress simply shook her head "No, I was simply passing through the area when you arrived, I sensed your magical power and decided to follow you."

The dark haired Quincy simply pushed his glasses back into place "I see. Well if that is all I'll be leaving."

"It's not all actually, I want you to join my peerage."

Harry studied her carefully for a moment before he asked "And what exactly is a peerage?"

"Do you mind if we discuss this elsewhere."

Harry merely shrugged before he approached her and held out his hand for her to take "I guess we can discuss this at my place."

Sona eyed him carefully for a moment before she took his hand they both vanished in a flash of light.

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