Chapter Four: Diagon Alley Tea Party
When morning finally came around, Hawaii was pissed. So freakin' pissed, infact, that she ended up jumping out of her bed at 7 in the morning, dashing down into the pub, and ranted to a bunch of wizards on the properties of a good luau for a good thirty minutes before South Dakota and Texas both stomped down the stairs. They both took one look at their ranting sister, who was only dressed in short sleep shorts and a brightly coloured Marvel shirt, looked at each other, and touched their noses at the same time, yelling out "Not it!".
The two states stared eachother down, not backing down. That was of course, until Texas pulled a dirty move and kicked South in his shin.
After much cursing, waking up Virginia (which was not pretty. At all.), setting some poor wizard's robes on fire, Hawaii accidentally knocking some green-eyed wizard's glasses off, multiple shots of coffee, and a brooding California later, Hawaii finally stopped her luau rant. Finally.
"Okay, now that that's done," South Dakota mumbled, rubbing his still-sore shin, "what do we do now?"
Maryland looked up from his coffee. "We're supposed to meet the British Bastard at some bank." He looked at his pocket watch. "In maybe about twenty minutes."
"Make it thirty." Alabama said. "Who cares if we're late, anyways?"
DC looked up from his coffee. "Well, we're shrunk now, anyways. Might as well pay him back."
All the states looked at each other, a silent conversation passing between them.
"Alright, Tex- sorry, Taylor, you go get the water balloons-"
"-Yes sir, Virginia sir!-"
"Call me Christopher! Use human names!" Virginia hissed at Texas. "DC, Sean, sweetie, can you go and get 5 gallons of tea, the hot kind, please? Alek, you and Kyra go find out where Arthur will be going to be waiting for us. Scope out the area, find good places to throw the tea bombs at, okay?"
DC and Alaska saluted Virginia before heading out to do the jobs Virginia instructed them to do.
"Alright, Annabeth, Carson, Joshua, and Laura, can you all go out and rig the tea-bomb throwers up again? Use the updated version, not the 1773 versions, please."
Mississippi, California, Alabama, and Louisiana all shouted "yes sir, Virgy sir!" before heading out to complete their tasks.
Virginia turn towards to the five states that were waiting for possible orders. "Brandon, Logan, you two are good at making distractions, so you twins go and make sure no wizards get caught in the crossfire, okay?"
North and South Dakota saluted Virginia before going to go do their evil twin shenanigans.
"Mia, if you can go help Taylor and Sean fill the water balloons with tea, that would be great." Virginia watched as Hawaii saluted and ran off to help her siblings. He turned to Maryland with a smirk. "And you, Thomas, you stay where you are. You look good this morning."
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"Target has been spotted, over and out." Alaska, AKA Alec A. Jones, said into his earpiece. "Kyra, go follow him, please." Kyra let out a small bark before following England into Gringotts.
"Good," Virginia's voice carried over from the earpiece. "Keep a good eye on him, I'll let you know whenever it's time to lure him out.
"Taylor, you come in?" Virginia asked into the earpiece.
"Wild West is in!" Texas's voice carried through, loud and clear.
"Alright, how are the balloons coming along?"
Virginia heard Texas and DC's snicker through his earpiece. "Oh, they're comin' along quite nicely. Dare I say that this is the best we've ever made 'em?" The Old Dominion State heard the sarcasm and the obvious fact that his younger brothers did something to the balloons. But he ignored them. Virginia really didn't care about what happened to England at this point.
"Okay, good. When will you guys be ready?"
"6 minutes, give 'r take."
"Right. Once you are done with that, bring them to Gringotts, unless I tell you that something changed."
"Aye aye, Captain!"
"Brandon, you come in?" Virginia asked into his earpiece, switching channels once again.
"Sush! I'm supposed to be dead right now!" Virginia heard North Dakota hiss into his earpiece.
"He's actually doing a pretty good job at it." South Dakota, also known as Logan, laughed. "For once, he actually looks dead. Must've gotten some good practice in."
"Ha-ha, very funny, Brother." North Dakota muttered sarcastically. "And what are you doing right now? Care to tell Virgy-dearest?"
Virginia could practically hear South Dakota blush. "N-no! I-I'm not doing a-anything!" He said frantactly.
"Blackmail shall be sweet, Brother."
"You wouldn't!"
"Oh, but I would."
Virginia just switched channels to talk with Mississippi, who was working on setting up the tea traps. "Annabeth, you come in?"
"Yups! Everything's all set up. We'll be ready to set it off once Tex- Oh, speak of the fucker, here she is now." Mississippi said with a grin.
"Right, contact me once you're ready. Oh, and can you ask Carson to set up some cameras? I get the feeling that the next world meeting that's hosted will be quite fun."
Mississippi snickered. "Of course, Chris. It shall be done."
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Less than ten minutes later, everything was set up. The Dakotas had managed to distract curious wizards, so the outside of Gringotts was empty and ready for the Diagon Alley Tea Party. With a small signal from Virginia, Alaska started the chain reaction.
America's 13 children eagerly waited outside as England walked outside, but sadly, there was someone with him. It was the wizard boy that Hawaii had knocked the glasses off earlier.
"Crap," Louisiana muttered. "Virgy, do we still fire?"
"Yes." Virginia said sternly, looking over at the boy. "Not our fault he's in the way."
"Chris-" Maryland started, putting a hand on his lover's shoulder. "That's the boy we are supposed to be protecting. Are you sure you want to get him caught in the crossfire?"
"Sacrifices must be made in the time of war." Alaska supplied over their communication devices. "Boys-Who-Lived included."
"Al's right." Texas said. "Fire on my mark. I've got the best aim here, remember?"
"You do not!" Florida gasped. "You, me, and Alabama all tied for shooting!"
"Whatever, on my mark!" The states waited as Kyra lead their targets into the middle of the street. Someone snickered as England looked around, confused.
"Ready…" Texas murmured. "...Steady… FIRE!" Texas screamed, thrusting her hand forward in a firing motion from her position on the roof with the machines.
The 13 Americans watched with amusement as England starting to curse loudly as hot tea splattered all over himself and the Boy-Who-Lived.
"YOU BLOODY STATES GET YOUR ASSES DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!" England screamed at them, waving his fist in the general direction of bombers. "YOUR FATHER WILL BE HEARING ABOUT THIS! WAIT UNTIL HE HEARS THAT THIS HAPPENED AGAIN!"
"He'll just congratulate us!" Hawaii yelled down at England. "He is the one who showed us how to rig these things up, anyways!"
"Yeah!" California added. "Dad'll be happy that we got this on video, too!"
"Revenge is sweet, you British Bastard!" Virginia yelled down, his eyes alighted with joy.
"Sorry about all this, Harry," England sighed, facepalming. "My nieces and nephews are quite a handful."
"Uh, that's okay, Mr Kirkland." Harry said sheepishly, looking up to where the states were taunting their uncle. "Are they the ones who will be going to Hogwarts?"
"Yes, sadly they are. My brother - their father - has agreed to let them go to Hogwarts instead of their state's schools of Magic." England supplied, glaring up at them. "But that doesn't excuse their behavior."
"It's okay, Mr Kirkland," Harry said, smiling up at the man he had met a few minutes ago. "I don't mind it. They seem like fun people."
"I'm not too sure fun in the word I would use for them…" England trailed off before sighing. "Will you come down from there already?!" He yelled up at them.
"Fiiiiiinnnneeeeeee." North Dakota sighed, jumping down from the roof. "C'mon, Brother!"
"Alright, I'm comin'." His twin groaned, before hopping down to join the trio on the ground.
Soon, all the states stood in a semi-circle, facing England and his newfound companion.
"So, who's this?" Alabama asked bluntly.
"I'm Harry Potter," Harry said, waiting for them to make a big fuss over it. Surprisingly, they did nothing.
"Cool," a boy with blond hair and grey eyes said with a grin. "I'm Carson Jones!"
"And my awesomeness is Taylor!" A girl with brown and blond hair pointed to herself. "and this-" she pointed to the silver-haired boy behind her "-is Alek and his awesome dog, Kyra." The boy, Alek, gave Harry a small smile.
"I'm Joshua, but you can just call me Josh," a boy wearing a shirt that said 'All Hail Alabama The Great!'.
Harry nodded, all of the siblings names' going over his head. They all looked at him, grinning.
"I can understand if you don't remember all of our names at first," one of the boys, Thomas(?), said with a small smile.
"Yeah…" Harry said with a forced smile. How else was he supposed to respond to that?
"Welp, we better be going!" Taylor(?) said, grabbing two of her brothers' hands and dragging them to Gringotts. "We still need to raid Dad's bank account and get all the stupid supplies and shit. See ya' later, Harry!" And with that, the Jones's were gone.