First let me thank 9 of the 10 people who reviewed. Joker '-' Happy doesn't get a thank you for 2 reasons 1st he's my Muse, 2nd he was in the room with me when he wrote it.

Before I begin the chapter I want to address one of the guest reviews concerning Mark cleaning the rifle in the last chapter. I'm ex military, one time one of my Drill sergeants ordered me to clean all: 245 M16s, 23 M4s, and 12 machine guns in the company. When you have them disassembled they basically look like a pile of parts, however the last thing you do after cleaning a gun (and any gun owner knows this) is wipe it down to get any excess gun oil and solvent off. To a magical family, who know little to nothing of muggle tech let alone weapons, wiping down a reassembled rifle would look like he was cleaning it.

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Chapter 2

As Harry made his way out of the pipe he noticed that though his cousin and his friends had backed away from the pipe they were still close enough to catch him if he tried to run. It seemed Rena noticed them too because though Harry couldn't see her, he could feel the large snake moving. It was a weird sensation; it felt as though Rena was moving under his skin it wasn't painful, just unusual for young Harry.

"Looks like the freak chose to deal with us rather than a little snake. Wimp." One of Dudley's friends said as they walked up to him Harry said "What do you mean she wasn't that mean?" as Harry finished his statement Rena Partly left Harry's skin and slid her head out of the neck of Harry's t-shirt.

The 5 bullies were at least smart enough to know when the snake was a threat. Even though they couldn't see the whole snake the fact that the head alone was the size of a large baked potato, was enough to tell them that she wasn't a little gardener snake. And to really put fear into the boys she slowly opened her mouth showing off her fangs some of which were dripping a clear liquid.

Dudley looked to one of his friends and said "You said your brother had snakes, is that dangerous?" the boy was slowly backing away his eyes never leaving Rena's fangs "Never seen one like that but that is venom dripping off its teeth." With that the boy turned around and ran the other 4 boys were quick to follow. Harry looked to his new familiar and smiled "I don't think I'm going to go anywhere without you anymore."

As soon as Rena had disappeared back into Harry's skin he began his long walk back home. Unfortunately, because of his joy at finally having someone who cared about him never mind enough to defend him, he forgot that his wale of a cousin was probably half way home and by the time he even made it to private drive his cousin would have made it home, told his uncle that Harry set a snake on him and his friends, and his uncle would likely be waiting with a baseball bat.

The moment Harry walked in the door he heard his uncle scream "Freak" he walked into the living room. There waiting for him was his uncle with a cricket bat. (I was close)

"You little freak did you think you would get away with setting a snake on Dudley? Did you, you little bastard?" with that Vernon swung the bat at Harry's head causing Harry to fall into the wall head first and fall to the ground before Vernon could even move Rena had left Harry's skin and was coiled on the unconscious boy ready to strike at anyone who came in range.

Dudley yelled from the other side of the room "That's the one he threatened me with." Rena turned her head to check on Harry she had enough time to see that he had a major gash on the side of his head and a piece of glass from Harry's now destroyed glasses was stuck in his nose not even a quarter inch from his eye. Vernon took this as a chance to kill the snake and swung at it with enough force to send Rena into the opposite wall. Unfortunately for the Dursleys not only did Vernon's swing do little more than stun Rena for a second, she landed a few feet from Dudley and Petunia. Lucky for them Vernon was the only one she was focused on.

She was about to tear into Vernon when they heard Harry grown and start trying to move. Rena lost interest in Vernon and quickly moved to Harry this time though she never took her eye off Vernon's bat. Vernon who was shocked that the 7 foot snake wasn't even fazed by the hit from the cricket bat ordered Harry "Get the fuck up and get in your cupboard before I bash your skull in, and take the snake with you." Vernon was hoping that if nothing else being locked in the cupboard with the snake would end with the freak getting bit. Harry managed to half drag himself half stumble to his cupboard.

As soon as harry was in the cupboard and Rena slithered in Vernon used the cricket bat to close the door and then immediately locked it. In the cupboard Harry had passed out again and Rena was coiled protectively over Harry.

On the other side of the country Michelle and Charles Greengrass were in Charles office discussing their daughter's betrothal when the bell on the mantle chimed again they both looked at it for a moment in confusion until Charles reopened the file containing their daughters betrothal contract. He looked it over for a few moments before he found what had changed. Harry's location was now on one of the documents. He told Michelle this and told her he was going to go collect the boy.

Charles was walking down Private drive less than 10 minutes later. He knocked on the door of number 4, a few moments later a man that looked like a small moon answered the door. Charles extended his hand and said "Good afternoon sir I'm here about Mister Harry Potter." Vernon looked shocked and a little scared.

"I'm sorry I didn't expect anyone here this soon. Since no one was hurt can we just let the snake issue go? We're already disciplining him." Charles raised an eyebrow and replied "Sir I'm not quite sure what you're talking about I'm here concerning a contract and the last wishes of the boy parents. Would you mind if I come inside I doubt this will be information you want the neighborhood hearing about." For a moment Vernon was confused about what the man in a ten thousand dollar suite was talking about until his pea sized brain realized what the man was talking about and his face started to turn purple with rage and growled thru clinched teeth.

"We want nothing to do with that freakishness. And I don't care what my freak sister in law wanted or what debts that contract says she owes, it's not our problem." Vernon tried to slam the door in the Charles's face but he caught the door before it closed and replied "And I don't care to deal with bigots, now either you let me in and we discuss this like mature adults or I contact our world's law enforcement and have them come here disguised as your law enforcement and we'll cause a seen that will ruin your reputation."

Vernon started to turn a dangerous shade of purple that made Charles think the wale had stopped breathing "How dare you threaten me you freak just who do you think you are." Charles calmly reached his free hand in to his pocket and pulled out his wand and said "Considering I have tea with the Queen of England about once every month or so, I'm the last person you want to deal with." Vernon's face went from purple to ghost white in the span of about 2 seconds and grudgingly opened the door.

As soon as Charles set foot in the house his senses told him something was very wrong, he tightened his grip on his wand that was still in his right hand. Before Vernon had closed the door he found what was wrong. There was a frightening amount of blood on the floor and it looked as thou someone was trying to clean it up.

Charles looked to Vernon and said "There must have been one hell of an accident for there to be this much blood." Vernon looked scared for a moment trying to come up with an excuse for all the blood and finally managed to stutter out the fre… my nephew slipped and hit his head." Charles looked at Vernon for a moment before he followed the blood trail, by this time Petunia had come into the hall carrying a bucket and wearing rubber gloves, but stopped when she saw Charles she looked nervously to Vernon who shook his head. Charles walked down the hall until he came to the cupboard where the blood trail ended he looked to the 2 muggles with a raised eyebrow he unlocked it and opened the door and immediately stepped back when he saw the snake coiled on the bleeding boy. At first he thought the snake had bit the boy until he saw that the blood was coming from the boys head and face.

Then he noticed just what type of snake was on him. "A Basilisk?" he muttered he looked back at the Dursley as if waiting for an explanation unfortunately for them Vernon opened his mouth "The little bastard shouldn't have set that snake on my son and his friends." Charles raised his wand "Expecto Patronum" Both of the dursleys cringed thinking the spell would in some way hurt them when they opened their eyes they saw a silver dog just standing in the hall.

Charles said to the ghostly dog "Madam Boans I require your assistance immediately at number 4 Private Drive, Little Wellington. Bring no less than 2 Aurors and a healer. Be warned there is a Basilisk present however it appears to be young and bonded to a young boy." With that the dog ran thru a wall and vanished. Charles then turned his wand on the muggles he glanced at the Basilisk on the boy, young or not its venom was still deadly. But what he saw surprised him, not only was the snake no longer hissing it was looking at him with what could only be described as a look of curiosity. "Don't worry I'm here to help him but you're going to have to let the healer tend to his wounds."

Vernon snorted as thou he thought Charles was the biggest moron on the planet "It's just a dumb animal what are you doing talking to it like it's a person?" Charles grinned and the basilisk resumed hissing just this time at Vernon. A few minutes later someone started pounding on the door Charles pointed his wand a Petunia and told her to open the door. She did and was immediately pushed out of the way as 2 tall men in robes forced their way in followed by 2 women. One of the women, who was wearing a monocle, looked to Charles and asked "What the hell is going on Charles."

Said man gave a summary of why he was here, what was said and done upon his arrival when he got to the quick discussion he had with the basilisk said serpent slithered out of the cupboard and resumed hissing at the dumb muggles causing 4 wands to move almost as one to it. "Like I said its young but so far doesn't seem interested in attacking anyone other than these 2" the second woman who until now couldn't believe the story she was hearing rushed to the cupboard catching the attention of the snake in the middle of the hall and while it was no longer hissing the yellow eyes watching her every move unnerved everyone present.

She waved her wand over the boy in the cupboard (boy will I be glad when this seen is over cause I'm getting sick of typing that word) "He's got a major laceration on the side of his head as well as a fractured skull and glass fragments are imbedded in his face. Additionally he seems to be seriously malnourished."

The other woman and the two Aurors looked like they wanted to kill the dursleys "Jena, Auror Theo, take the boy to a muggle hospital, Jena get a muggle doctor gather evidence. Auror Kent take photos before they move him." She then looked at the snake "As for you… Charles would you charm a shoe box or something so it will be large enough to hold it I doubt the muggles would appreciate a 7 foot long venomous snake slithering around their hospital. And I doubt it would appreciate being separated from the boy."

2 hours later found Harry being released from the hospital into Charles's custody and the Dursleys being dragged out of their house in handcuffs in front of their neighbors and Dudley was being taken away by CPS.

CPS and the investigating officers who came to the hospital had been shocked to hear the boy was in a betrothal contract but after seeing a slightly altered version of the contract and the wills of Harrys parents, the muggle authorities didn't need to know about Galleons or anything else magical, had to admit that Charles was Harry's legal guardian, and after informing them that the Greengrass family had a private Doctor, Harry was released and taken to the Greengrass mansion. All the while no one noticed the shoe box with a good sized snake head sticking out from under the lid watching over Harry.

Across the Atlantic the Delacour Family was debating over whether or not to sign the contract. Mark was growing annoyed with them so to speed up their decision he said "Look with respect I don't have all day and I need to know fairly soon whether or not I need to cancel my little 'trip' to South Africa so I want you to take a look at this."

He went into the back of the Humvee he was sitting on and pulled out another file and handed it to Jean "This is a contract I received a few days ago it's an assassination request, and I'll give you 3 guesses whose name is on it and the first 2 don't count." Jean shakily opened the file and saw his eldest daughters name on it.

The Colonel said "If the people after your daughter think Mark could successfully assassinate the daughter of one of the people running for Minister of magic of France… Mark is a pretty serious threat. Mark chose not to take it because he doesn't like murdering innocent children. But I doubt he's the only one that got one of these."

Jean and Apolline looked at each other for a full minute before they signed. Mark grinned and said "I need a strand of hair from all 4 of you." They looked confused but did as he said. While they were doing that Mark grabbed a radio off the dashboard of the Humvee and called for someone or something.

5 minutes later 4 men and 6 women walked up along with 5 cups of what looked like boiling mud. Mark dropped 1 strand of hair in each cup and a few moments later there were 2 more of each of them. Mark grinned even more and said "There are 3 of us so we'll take 3 different routes. I hope none of you get air sick."

He then turned to a group of people in camo siting on the ground about 50 feet away and yelled "I want 4 minions' front and center NOW." 4 of them quickly got up and ran to stand in front of Mark, he pointed to 2 of them and told them "You two get to the admin building tell them I need a goblin to write up the detailed contract." As soon as they took off running he looked at the 2 still present "Have you guys finished studying the assembly manual for the .50 Cal machine gun?" the 2 sounded off as one "Yes sir" "Good then get started cleaning the one on this Humvee, I have places to be. You break my Machine gun I will break you." He said the last part glaring daggers at the 2 unfortunate soldiers.

AN

Me. And there's chapter 2 once again thank you to everyone who reviewed any and all comments are welcome as criticism makes for better writing.

Muse walks into the room

Me. Oh hay man what are you doing here?

Muse looks at me… then at the door on the other side of the room, walks to the door opens it, walks thru and slams it shut

Me. Ok that was weird so anyway (crashes, banging against the wall and screams, both human and not can be heard)

Me. (Reaches under desk and grabs my 1911) what the hell is going on out there?

Muse. (Shouts) HAVE AT THEE FOWL DEMON!

Me. What the fuck (gets up and starts walking to the door)

Door opens and Muse walks back in covered in blood and scratches

Me. Dude what the fuck just happened

Muse. Had to rid the world of its evils… evil chickens must be destroyed (holds up dead bird)

Me. Dude that was my fucking turkey that was for thanksgiving

Muse. Damn it… wait my evil chicken senses are tingling (chicken comes flying in the room clawing and pecking at Muse's face) AH DAMN GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!

Me. … I'm staying the hell out of this one you're on your own. Anyway thanks for reading if you can please review.

Muse. AHHH OH GOD IT'S PECKING UP MY NOSE.

Me. Oh for God's sake it's a 3 pound chicken… what's that smell?

Muse. IT SHIT ON MY HEAD

The two jump apart and stare intently at each other. Mortal combat music starts playing they charge back at each other ready to truly begin the battle when they hear BANG the music stops, they look at me who is holding the still smoking 1911 pointed at the now destroyed CD player

Me. OH HELL NO NOT IN MY HOUSE YA'LL CAN TAKE THAT SHIT OUTSIDE

Muse. … TO BE CONTIUED

Me. Fuck you, stop hijacking my computer