A/N: Sorry for the late update, I was busy, then sleep deprived, then I
was away to the VERY traditional country side, then the exams
started… I AM VERY SORRY!!!!
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THE CRAZY SCHOOL YEAR
Chapter 3: Shopping Time! (Part 2)
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-Hogwarts castle, same time-
(Normal P.O.V)
"So…"
"So…"
(Silence)
"So you're saying that you two come from GOA, candidates for piloting positions for humanoid fighting robots, and were on one of them when you passed out and when you woke up, you found yourselves in that 'extremely dusty and woody place'?" came Dumbledore's voice.
"Yeah… pretty much" said Zero with a shrug. "Okay then, so who are you? Where is this place actually? And what time is it? I'm feeling hungry…" he added, eyes wavering from place to place, curiosity clear in his eyes. Dumbledore smiled.
"My name is Albus Dumbledore. I work in a school called Hogwarts," he replied.
"Oh! Are you a teacher then?" Zero turned to look at him excitedly, wearing a mask of surprise then said, "Because, no offence, but you look way too old to teach."
"You could say that. In fact, I'm the headmaster of that school. Age does not actually matter. Besides, I do not wish to forfeit my position as of yet. I still have a duty to carry out as the headmaster of this school," Dumbledore paused for a moment to glance at his clock,"You know, it is almost lunch time. Would you like to have something to eat?" he asked politely.
"I'd love to! But still, I'm not too sure about him…" he pointed at Hiead, who is (obviously) still knocked out.
Hiead grunted in his sleep, turning a little so that his back is facing Zero and Dumbledore. Zero sweat dropped anime style.
'This guy can sleep through anything…' thought the both of them in unison.
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(Zero's P.O.V)
Okay…. No need to panic...
So, I did woke up to see a creepy and scary looking guy staring at me merely half a foot away, got knocked out, again, and sent to see this other old guy who says that he's the headmaster of a school.
…
…
…
Okay, scratch that. This is definitely time for panicking.
I took hold of the front of Hiead's GOA uniform and lifted it until his face is eye level with me.
Then, out of my spite for Hiead and the fun of it….
"WAKE UP!!!" I slapped Hiead around a bit till I'm pretty sure that he's COMPLETELY awake and had to dodge a punch from him right after he woke up. The punch landed on my left cheek. Ouch!
Well, I guess he's alright then…
I rub my sore cheek. This guy hits hard!
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-Flourish and Blotts, Diagon Alley, a few minutes after the above conversation-
(Normal P.O.V)
Ron's Group
Meanwhile, with Ed and Roy in reference books section…
Ed and Roy are browsing through the choices of books, occasionally putting them in piles that they decided to dub as 'Maybes' pile, 'Not bad' pile and 'Considered bought' pile.
A few minutes later, Ed suddenly remembered something…
"Wait, I just remembered something…" said Ed as he took a book from a random bookshelf.
"What?" was the reply from his overly-sarcastic-and-annoying-superior-slash-soon-to-be-teacher… not that he needed any more lessons about alchemy! Ed's pretty sure that he's a lot more knowledge about alchemy than of that idiotic, self worshipping, perverted, annoying, Colonel Roy Mustang!
Ignoring (but still fuming) his previous thoughts, Ed lowered his voice and said, "Aren't we supposed to be Harry Potter's babysitters?"
He received a nod as an answer.
"Then why are we in his group?" at that statement, he pointed at their group leader, Ron. Roy pondered for a moment. That does make sense….
Ed waited…
A while later, he shrugged flamboyantly and said, "I don't know… SHRIMP!"
"I AM NOT A SHRIMP!!!!!"
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-Same place, same time, different aisle-
Meanwhile, with Ryoma and Tezuka…
"Tezuka-buchou, what are we supposed to buy again?" asks Ryoma, glancing at his (former) team captain. He is currently standing on a ladder. The sign above his head says 'Hogwarts Textbooks'. They decided, that since Ryoma is smaller, and thus, easier to move around, he will climb the ladders and take the books they needed.
"Hmm…" Tezuka looks into his (very) long list of book's tittles. "Well, we have to buy everyone's textbooks, so…" he started listing them off, making Ryoma rush for the books and trying not to miss any books.
Thirteen minutes later…
"Did you get all that?" said Tezuka to an extremely exhausted Ryoma. Beside him, stands a very TALL stack of textbooks.
"I… huff…think… huff… so…" he panted.
"Good."
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Meanwhile, we will turn our focus to Ron…
Ron, being the only one that actually play no part WHATSOEVER (except for being group guide of course, no offence to Ron lovers) in this group's shopping spree, just stood around. The pretty salesgirl is his only company, but she only asked questions like,
"Who are those cute guys?" or "Ah!!! They're so cute!!!" complete with glittering eyes and occasional fan girl squealing. Yeah, things like that. You know… the usual stuff…
Ron sighed. He felt as though his inferiority complex is growing by the seconds…
Hanging out with cute and handsome people does that to you I guess…
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Harry's Group
This group had to stop for a moment for Oishi to… regain consciousness. Either way, they are now inside the stationeries store! Beware! Bwahahahaha!!! (A/N: Sorry, random craziness moment. )
"Alright, we need to buy quills, ink bottles, pieces of parchments, ink removers, and few other things on this list," said Harry, holding a paper that reads 'Things to Buy – Harry's Group' on the top. "To make things easier, I suggest we go separately."
At that moment, Taka raised his hand. Harry signaled for him to continue.
"Well, ano… I think we should go in pairs…" he said meekly, "It would be easier to... umm… regroup that way…"
The others waited…
"And I think we should set a time limit… for an hour… maybe?" he finished.
Silence fell.
"Okay… Let's do that! I'll go with Kawamura, you pair up with him. How does that sound?" said Harry. In his heart, he was praying; 'Please say yes! Please say yes! I don't want to deal with Eiji!!! (1)
Fortunately for him, they are more than HAPPY to do so.
"THAT SOUNDS GREAT!!!" shouted our overly hyper but lovable redhead. He latched onto poor Oishi's hand and runs off in a random direction.
"…"
"…"
Half a minute later, they reappeared in front of the other two.
"Eh… hehe… what are we supposed to buy again…?"
Harry sweat dropped.
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Hermione's Group
Hermione had had enough with the bickering of Momo and Kaidoh. She had tried to be nice and asked them nicely, but they won't listen to her. (A/N: When do they ever do?) And as such, she decides to hit them upside the head every time they started fighting.
But alas, she is not strong enough. That's the main reason why he asked Inui to do that for her, who gladly accepts. Inui's true intentions are, however, to collect data on how long they would stop fighting. Fuji smiled his ever angelic smile while stating that piece of information.
"What did you do that f – Ouch!" Momo was hit with Inui's notebook.
"Fsshh… I'm not going to answer that…"
"Why you…" he received another hit from Inui.
Fuji chuckled warmly and said, "Ah… Life is great…"
Hermione turns to face Fuji and shot him a questioning look. Fuji smiled. Momo hides behind Kaidoh, trying to run away from the wrath of… Inui's notebook!
"Yup… life is perfect..."
Hermione is glad that she is a senior to them. No matter how freakishly tall they are… the downside is, she is the one who has to apologize for the entire ruckus they made.
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Meanwhile….
Oishi and Eiji had found out that they have to use quills instead of pens. And so, here they are, in the quills section!
"Oishi! Oishi! Look! This quill writes itself!!!" Eiji shows Oishi a green quill. He then sets the quill on paper and the quill starts to write.
"Wow… I wonder how it does that…"said Oishi. He notices the writing to be very similar to Eiji's…
Wow, I can't believe it's actually moving! Huh? Why is Oishi staring at me? And why is he asking me to write in Japanese? Whatever, I might as well do it… hmm…
Nya... The quill hasn't stop writing yet. What is that thing writing anyways...?
EH!!!?!!! It's writing the exact same thing as my thoughts!!! NO WAY!!! That means… I can do-
At that exact moment, the quill runs out of ink. Oishi and Eiji stared at the quill for a moment. Then, realizing that they've used up the ink, they pick it up, and put it in their paper bag (that Harry gave them before they go off shopping. Some of them won't want to use them though). Grabbing a few dozens of quills and bottles of ink, they throw it inside the paper bag too and went off in search for the next item.
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Meanwhile…
Harry and Taka are doing just fine. Right now, they are in the parchments section.
"Harry, what do you think of this one?" said Taka, showing Harry a piece of white parchment.
"What?"
"Oh, this will be fine. Maybe we should get more of this one," said Harry, holding a piece of parchment. Taka nodded and starts filling his paper bag with parchment.
Right… let's continue with the others. Shall we?
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Meanwhile… (Does anybody know any other word for 'meanwhile'?)
Back to Hermione's Group…
"Right. You two..." Hermione points at Momo and Fuji,"you will buy the pets. Here is the list," she hands Fuji a folded piece of paper. That's right, PAPER as in not parchment.
"Sure," said Fuji.
"For you two, we'll go to the apothecary to buy the potions supplies. By 'we', I mean, you," she points her finger at Kaidoh,"and you!" she points her finger at Inui, "and me."
"Any objections?" she added with a glare.
"No."
And so, they depart to their assigned shops.
Hermione let out a sigh. At least she can stop Kaidoh and Momoshiro's quarrels, for now.
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In the Pet Shop…
Fuji and Momo went inside the shop. The shop is dark, and full of animals such as owls, cats and mice. The shop has an eerie feeling about it, making Momo shiver. As for Fuji, he's completely calm and collected, if not amazed.
They crossed over the room and ring the bell. A while later, a lady came and asks them what they want.
Fuji opens the folding of the paper. It reveals the writing of eleven people. Reading the paper, Fuji chuckled. Momo raised an eyebrow in confusion and looks at the paper. He sweat dropped anime style.
This is what the paper says:
Roy Mustang- I want a black dog that obeys his master, toilet trained and well mannered. Dogs are meant to obey!!!!
Edward Elric- An owl would be nice.
Kikumaru Eiji- I want a CAT!!!! I want it to be fluffy and cute! And I want it red!!!
Tezuka Kunimitsu- Delivery owl. Yudan sezu ni ikkou.
Ryoma Echizen- Karupin.
Inui Sadaharu- I want a white mouse. Ii data…
Kaidoh Kaoru- No pets for me. I don't want any.
Momoshiro Takeshi- A delivery owl. That can deliver burgers!!!
Fuji Syuusuke- A snake.
All the writings are jumbled together, forming some sort of collage. At the end of the paper, there's a postscript. It says;
Don't buy a dog for Mustang!!!
Yours truly,
EE.
"Fuji-sempai…"
"Yes?"
"Do you really want a snake?"
Fuji ponders for a moment.
"Yes."
Momo was sure life would be a living hell from now on…
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Meanwhile…In the apothecary…
The apothecary holds a lot of potion ingredients. To any scientist, this would be fascinating. But to Inui, the apothecary is very useful.
"So, this is a newt's eyeball, then..." said Inui, holding a bottle that contains an eyeball. The label says 'Newt's Eyeball'.
"Ii… data…"
Hermione ignored him. "I would like 10 potions kits please. And I would like to refill these potions kits," she said, swinging three potions kits onto the desk.
"And you two!" she called, turning to face the two boys.
"Yes?" they replied in unison.
"Do not touch anything."
"But-"began Inui.
"Do Not. Touch. Anything." She repeated.
"Bu-"
Glare.
"Yes ma'am."
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After the shopping spree, around 4 pm,
All of them had gathered together after their three hours of shopping. However, they used up all of the money given to them by Dumbledore. Harry said that they have to withdraw some money.
Now I think you will understand why 14 people are standing inside a white building with most of them looking completely amazed by their surroundings. If not, read the above paragraph.
"Alright everyone, here's the key to a vault. The vault is named Seishun Tennis. Who's going to keep the key?" said Harry.
"Tezuka, of course," chorused everyone who was enrolled in Seishun Gakuen.
"Okay…" he said, giving the key to Tezuka.
"There are two other keys Professor Dumbledore gave me. The vaults are called Ho'ono and Hagane. I assume these are yours?" Harry holds up two keys.
"Yes," said the both of them, taking their respective keys.
"Ho'ono? Hagane?" said Momo.
"Nicknames," was the reply.
"Fine by me…"
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After a ride that made the ones in the carriage lose their breakfast, last night's dinner and lunch, they had about a few hundred galleons on their hands.
Our heroes are now on their way to Olliavander's wand shop. During their way there, they stopped by the ice cream parlor. Ice creams were bought and their pockets were lightened, but just by a little bit.
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P/s: I'm going to leave out the wand selecting part because I'm planning to put it in the next chapter. Yes, there's a part 3. Don't worry, my Finals exam just ended. I can spend more time writing and thinking up stories! XD
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(Short drama)
Roy: Hey, do you know that the authoress loves books as much as Ed does?
Ed: What are you implying? (Quirks eyebrow)
Me: He's saying that we're bookworms…
Fuji: Really? Are you?
Me & Ed: Yeah… (Me) sorta…(Ed)
Momo: Let's try it out!
All: How?
Momo: Like this! (Takes out two books and some money and puts it in front of me and Ed)
Me & Ed: (takes the books, sits down on the same couch, starts reading)
All: …. Okay…
Inui: Please leave a review!