Harry Potter
And the
Banished Mages
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Chapter Four
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Harry woke up to the smell of fresh cut grass in his nose, and something lying on his chest. Looking down he saw blond hair, and at first he wondered how his friend had gotten into his bed. Then he remembered Luna coming in and saying she was fulfilling a fantasy.
Slipping out of the bed, he left his friend sleeping and quickly washed his face and headed out of the room to the kitchen. He wanted to start a pot of coffee, but found it ready. Poppy popped in and told him breakfast would be served in thirty minutes and that the elves had stood watch all night in shifts. They reported only the loud roaring of a tall creature in the distance. Harry knew that was the Rancor, and hoped it didn't come closer.
Finishing his coffee, he wandered back to the library, and summoned all the Star Wars books, and placed them in his original school trunk. He was shocked that there were over one hundred and fifty books. Shrinking the trunk he hid it on top of one of the bookcases, so the Jedi wouldn't find it. It wouldn't be good if they were discovered. That's when he noticed the library was much more full than it had been, and had more shelves. He would estimate that it was three times the size of the Hogwarts library, now.
"Poppy?" Harry called out and the elf popped in.
"You call, master?"
"Yes, did the elves sort all the new books?" he asked.
"We did, master. We put all the new books on the far right shelves and they head all the way to the back. We weren't sure if they should be like restricted section of Hoggywarts," Poppy replied.
"Well done, and thank you. You may go," Harry said as he walked down the rows and looked at all the books.
The smell of food lured him to the dining room and he sat down and a plate of bacon, eggs, and toast. More coffee appeared, with a side order of waffles. Harry dug into the food; and as he ate, he was soon joined by Luna and then Aayla and Barriss.
"What's the plan for today?" Luna asked.
"Not sure, Luna," Harry replied.
"Well I need to finish the repairs to the freighter," Aayla said and then asked, "Barriss, can you help?"
"You know I will," Barriss replied and then they settled into eating their meal.
The young woman wasn't sure what they were eating but it was tasty and would like to try it again as usually all they would eat would be a bowl of mush for breakfast with fruit along with water or tea but this coffee she was having sure woke her up like nothing else she'd ever had. She didn't know it, but Aayla was thinking the same thing. Finally, both Jedi went down to the hanger and started working on the ship, trying to put all the parts they had taken off back into their rightful places, with the help of the droids they had stolen.
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It had been four days since the clones had tried to murder Aayla and Barriss. The four of them worked on the freighter, or they watched as Aayla and Barriss train, or they tried to teach their new friends some of the Jedi tricks, or Luna and Harry tried to teach magic to them after Harry found them each a wand from the ones he had stolen. It took a few hours, but they succeeded. After giving them a wand holster they started learning the first year spells.
During that time Aayla and Barriss worked on the repairs to the ship. Harry and Luna used the paint charm on the outside, while the elves cleaned the ship from bow to stern. Then Harry and Luna changed the ship by using expansion charms on the interior, and modifying the bedrooms to make them more comfortable. Then they worked on adding bathrooms with real running water. Harry also added a hot tub that could seat eight.
The evening of the fifth day of the attack found the four friends sitting at the entrance of the tunnel, watching the sun set in the distance. Luna had cast several area affect spells. One was to cool the area, another to remove the humidity and the third was to repel the insects. Behind and to their left, Poppy and another elf called Lucky were grilling up steaks, with foil wrapped baked potatoes, and a pot of corn-on-the-cob.
They were just sitting down to dinner when Aayla and Barriss stiffened up and Harry asked, "What's wrong?"
"Incoming ship. Five people are on board," Aayla replied.
They stood there on the ledge as a large freighter came in view. Aayla identified it as a type H freighter manufactured by Galarne/Ferges Industries. The freighter neared them and then started past and then stopped as it reversed itself to land in front of the cave and them the ramp lowered.
"It's Masters Shaak Ti, Jokasta Nu, Cin Drallig, and Padwins Zett Jukassa, and Whie Malreaux," Aayla said as she identified each of the beings exiting the craft.
Harry looked at Poppy and said, "Put more food on for our guests and get another table."
Poppy nodded and popped away, while Lucky expanded the ledge by vanishing the rock wall.
"Master Shaak Ti!" Aayla hollered down to the beings leaving the freighter.
Shaak Ti shaded her eyes as she looked up and made out the four figures on the ledge and replied, "May we come up?"
Aayla looked at Harry and he nodded, "Yes, come on up."
The five Jedi used their powers of force jumping, and jumped to the ledge where Shaak Ti looked around at the two Jedi, and two others she did not know.
"My name is Shaak Ti. I am a Jedi master on the Jedi council. With me are our chief librarian Jokasta Nu, and Jedi Master Cin Drallig as well as Padwins Zett Jukassa and Whie Malreaux," she said as she introduced everyone.
"Name is Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood, and we're a wizard and a witch," Harry replied and then said, "Those are Poppy and Lucky and they are two of my house elves," pointing at the two elves.
Shaak Ti's eyebrows went up as she responded, "Magic? Really that is what primitives call…"
"Master Shaak Ti, he means exactly that. What he does, is not force manipulation," Aayla replied.
Harry pulled his wand and turned his chair into a recliner and shocked the new Jedi, "Can you do that?" he asked.
Shaak Ti looked at the chair and stepped up to it. She touched it thinking it was an illusion but was surprised when it wasn't.
Harry then pointed again at the chair and turned it into a cat.
Shaak Ti jumped away as she stared at the animal and then her eyes snapped onto the young man, "Is this sith alchemy?" she asked.
"No, just plain old transfiguration," Harry replied as he summoned his patronus, and said, "That is a charm."
"Fascinating," Jokasta Nu said as she reached out and touched the strange creature.
"Thank you; it's the symbolic of good. It's designed to fight two creatures on my world, and is also used as a messenger."
"Master the food is ready," Poppy said.
"Thank you, Poppy," Harry replied and he noticed the angry looks the new Jedi gave him, "House Elves are a symbiotic race. They need to bind themselves to highly magical places or wizards or witches in order to live. If they don't, they slowly go insane, lose control of their magic and die."
The new Jedi thought of what he had said as they sat down to eat.
"I hope you like steak, baked potatoes and corn on the cob and are able to eat it," Harry replied.
Inside the library five books started glowing as magicals or force sensitive were detected on the planet that hadn't been there before and their names were added to the books. Harry wouldn't find them for several days.
Down below the cliff face, with the help of the elves, the air around the new ship changed to show it looked like part of the landscape, as a dome appeared over the ship and went to the cliff. Illusions of trees, brush and rocks appeared to form the area, matching the surrounding land.
Shaak Ti looked at Aayla and asked, "What did you do to the task force you were assigned to?"
Aayla blushed as she replied, "I set the munitions in the magazines to self destruct, three hours after they lifted off."
"Well it succeeded. Your task force dropped out of hyper to change hyper lanes and then blew up, killing all of them aboard and blocking two hyper lanes with their debris. We had to go around, in a different lane, to get here. Due to your warning, less than a hundred Jedi were killed. I don't know how the Agricultural, Medical, Educational, or the Exploration Corps fared. I have heard that the Academy of Jedi Archeology got away clean, but I did warn them and I… I just don't know how bad Palpatine gutted them. I know the ones that were on Coruscant were able to escape."
Luna interrupted them and said, "About eighty percent were able to escape in their ships."
"How do you know?" Shaak Ti asked.
"I am a seer," Luna replied.
Shaak Ti looked at Harry and he nodded, "If she says it. It's usually true."
"Thank the force," Shaak Ti replied.
"Palpatine is quite upset at the failure of his clones, and his military. Several high ranking officers have been executed for their failures," Luna stated.
"Good, the more he takes out the less we have to deal with," Aayla replied.
"Not good. As an emperor on my world once said, 'One bad general is worth two good ones'."
"That doesn't make sense," Aayla replied.
"It does if the general is on the other side. Because to your side it means hope," Shaak Ti said.
"Ohh, I see," Aayla replied and then nodded, "So if the bad generals stay in power, the good ones are never discovered."
"Correct," Luna replied.
The group went back to working on both ships. When finished the newly christened Phoenix was blue and silver while Shaak Ti's class 4 freighter was silver with black trim. It would take two days but when finished both ships looked like they had just come off the assembly line. It was at this time that Harry found the five glowing books that had the names of the new people written in them, ad they were glowing, again.
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Sirius sat up suddenly as Neana watched, worried. She was about to ask if he was okay, when Sirius stood up.
"We must leave, somehow Harry has come here," Sirius said.
"The one you call your godson?" she asked.
"Yes. How he came to be here, I don't know, but I need to find him," Sirius said as he started dressing.
"But how?" she asked.
"I will follow the link. Notify the other's we're leaving, but we'll be back; while I stock the ship with food," Sirius said as he went to the pantry and started shrinking the food and then did the same to the cool boxes while Neana ran out the doors and down the steps to the ground floor. She took off running down the trail to the nearest house and was soon banging on the door to notify her sister's family.
Sirius rushed to the 'Prongs and into the galley and started putting the food away while giving orders to the droid on board. He could feel the ships engines starting to warm up as he put the last of frozen food in the freezer before heading for the ramp to get their clothes but saw Neana coming down carrying their duffels.
With a quick kiss, he took the bags and let her go ahead of him and within forty-five minutes the freighter was lifting off with Sirius at the helm and Neana in the copilot's seat.
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Harry was working on his meditation in the library when Luna skipped in and kissed him, drawing him out of his meditative state.
"We're almost ready to lift off…," Luna said and then stopped as five books were glowing on an end table, so she asked, "Harry why are those books glowing?"
Harry turned to see where Luna was looking and saw the five thin books. Getting up he went over to them and read the titles, 'Book of Names.' Not knowing what they meant he did a few detection charms on the books and they came back negative so he picked up one and opened it and blinked in shock. He was looking at eight names starting with his and Luna's then Aayla and Barriss followed by the new Jedi's. Quickly checking the other books he found that they too had the same names.
"I think they link with the planets magic and show who is magical and who isn't," Harry said as he showed Luna.
"I agree, I think someone or something is trying to help us," Luna replied.
Harry started to close the book when he found a slip of parchment and he pulled it out. On it was a bunch of numbers and letters.
"I wonder what this is?" Harry said as he set the book down and showed the parchment to Luna.
Shaking her head, Luna suggested, "I suggest we show it to Aayla."
"Okay," Harry said and the two of them went to find their friend.
They found the Jedi going over their training as they were sparing with their blades. Seeing them the seven Jedi stopped and Aayla and Shaak Ti walked over.
"What's wrong Harry?" Aayla asked.
"I found this and thought we should show it to you because we have no idea what it is," Harry said as he handed the parchment to the Jedi.
Aayla opened it and frowned, "Why would you have coordinates to a planet?"
"Is that what it is? We found it inside a glowing book, called The Book of Names," Luna replied.
"What is this Book of Names?" Shaak Ti asked.
"It's five books that appeared in the library, and they are all the same. Inside the book are all of our names starting with Harry, myself then Aayla and Barriss and followed by your five names. Each name has a date by it so I assume that is when you were detected," Harry said and then asked, "Those coordinates?"
"Ahh, yes it's a nearby system that was liberated by the republic about a year ago. It has a strong military presence or did. I don't know what is there now," Shaak Ti said.
"Well I guess that's where Luna, Aayla and I will go. The rest of you can stay here until we can return," Harry said and Shaak Ti's started to interrupt, but Harry continued. "You people are too well known. I can disguise Aayla with a color changing charm."
"Color changing charm?" Aayla asked.
Pulling his wand, Harry fired the color changing charm at his friend and she turned from blue to red, "Yes, a color changing charm. I would do it on the rest of you but I don't know how much I could change on you all. Aayla has told me that in her race, they came in many colors. So I thought I could change her to red as I have."
Shaak Ti's eyebrows had gone up and she felt a slight pull on the force as Harry cast the spell, "That is amazing. Go to the coordinates that are mentioned but be careful. We will wait here and work on our ship. Could you leave a few of your elves to help us with their magic?"
"We can, just be careful. We don't know if the Empire will send anyone back here to find out what happened to their ships," Harry asked.
"We will," Shaak Ti said as they boarded the ship that would take them to an Imperial stronghold planet.
As the ramp went up, Aayla handed Luna and Harry galactic identity chips that showed they came from a rim world and that the Phoenix had been there's for two years. Luna and Harry were disguised as a small merchant ship owners and as a married couple while Aayla was their copilot and companion and was named Anya.
Aayla went through the preflight check and the ship slowly lifted off and shot down the tunnel to lift up into the air, heading for space. Behind them on the planet, the twenty elves left behind went to work enlarging the tunnel and bringing the other ship into the cavern so they could work on it. They had also left behind a spare tent for them to use that Luna owned.
Ten minutes after they lifted off, Aayla activated the hyper drive for the two day trip to Galidraan. When they entered the system, Harry was shocked at all the ships in orbit. The huge space dock that hung off the planet was home to dozens of those large Venator class star destroyers. Some were being towed in and some looked almost like wrecks. Aayla made contact with the space port and received permission to dock on the ground leaving the space dock for the crippled warships.
Harry had filled the hold with large rocks that he transformed into bronze statues for them to sell to make some money. They were of different species and each had gems for eyes. Harry decided to make two of the statues of rubies that were four feet tall and were designed as dragons. Each statue had permanency runes engraved on the bottom by Luna so they wouldn't revert back to normal. Each statue was in its own wooden box with straw around them.
Landing the ship, Harry went to the door with a bag of republican credits to pay the landing fee and was told that it would cost more because the credits had to be converted to Imperial credits and he told them he had no problem with that as long as he could convert them. He was questioned about his cargo and he told them he had antiquates he found on an abandoned planet for sale and that he would be taxed on their sales.
Inside the ship, Luna had opened one of the books and saw there was eight more names and their ages ran from three months to eight years old. Closing the book, she stood and joined Ayala at exit of the ship and opened the door. The smells of the environment of the city washed over her. Her nose twitched as she sneezed as the odor of the wet, foul smelling city hit her in the face. The air had the smell of pollution, soiled masses, dirty water and foul smelling sewage waste floating up from the capital city of the planet with a population of twenty million souls crammed into a small area. As they walked down the ramp, the door behind them snapped shut and sealed itself. By the time they reached the bottom of the ramp, sweat was running down the back of her neck.
Harry joined Aayla and Luna at the bottom of the ramp and they headed out of the docking bay and into the interior of the city. Their first stop was to find a buyer for the statues and after several hours they found one that was interested in them, after he looked at the images. Three hours later, Harry and the girls watched as the last of the crated statues were carried off the ship to their new owner. Payments of several million Imperial credits were issued to a new account for him.
They quickly checked the book of names and did a search for the first name on the planetary index and found out the first one was a three month old human female in an orphanage. Leaving Aayla to buy the supplies they needed, Luna and Harry headed out to find the girl. Abaila was left on the doorstep of the orphanage at the age of one month, with a letter saying her name was Abaila. Using a few Confundus spells and memory charms, Harry and Luna left the orphanage with the baby along with four year old Tristan Blake, a survivor of a pirate attack on the liner he was on with his family. Both children were taken to the ship and set up in one of the rooms with Aayla watching over them.
It would take several days to find the next two children but before they could leave Luna rushed in with the books showing it was glowing. Harry flipped the book open and sat down with a shock as he looked at the names. Written just below Aayla's were the name Sirius Black and Neana Black.
"How?" Harry asked.
"I don't know," Luna said.
"What's going on?" Ayala asked.
Luna turned the book around and showed the two names, "Sirius Black is Harry's godfather. He fell through the death veil at the ministry. We thought it killed him," she said.
"Well what are we going to do?" Harry asked.
"I don't know. It's up to you, Harry," Luna replied as she closed the book.
Harry stood up and took the book and looked at it and saw the location was three docking bays over. With a determination in his steps, he headed off the ship and out of the hanger. Quickly locating the bay he headed for it and was starting to press the button to contact the ship when the door opened and Harry just stared at his godfather and then he was hugging him.
"Harry, how are you here?" Sirius asked.
Harry wiped his eyes and looked at his godfather, "It doesn't matter. I found you," he said as he hugged his godfather again.
The two stood there until Neana coughed to get their attention.
"Harry I would like you to meet my wife, Neana she is a…"
"A twi'lek. I know," Harry said and he saw their ship behind them but didn't know it was a XS stock light freighter.
Harry led the two of them back to his ship where he introduced them to Luna and Aayla. The four discussed what was going on and Sirius suggested setting them up on his planet which was way out on the outer rim, and off the beaten path. They worked on a plan to rescue the remaining six magical/force sensitives on the planet, and then leave for Sirius' world. Sirius explained that the planet was covered in forests with a few plains. It had ample fresh water and three great oceans that surrounded six large continents. There was no indigenous intelligent life on the planet, but it did have its creatures. Most of the homes in the settlement that Sirius lived in went up the sides of the large trees that could grow to four hundred feet and had a base diameter of one hundred and fifty feet across.
Harry showed Sirius and Neana the book of names and both were surprised about their names appearing in the book. Sirius took two of the names and headed out while Harry and Luna went to speak with a pair of nine year old twins girls and Harry used some spells to calm the two street children down and asked to speak with them alone. After some questing, and some answers the two kids gathered their meager belongings and Luna took them shopping for new clothes and supplies before leading them back to the ship where they were assigned a room, together.
Sirius was able to get a seven year old boy and his mother to come with him and set them up in his ship and when he went to speak with another seven year old he ran into trouble with the parents. He had to remove the memories of the boy from their minds, as he said that the parents reminded him of his own, and were very abusive towards the boy. Luna was able to get the seventh child and her parents to come with them. The family was stuck on the planet due to being swindled by a con man that offered him a job to farm land. he had taken them for all their money, weeks before. Harry promised him land to farm and a place to build a home and it would offer a sanctuary for their three children. They accepted right away. With Harry's help and their shock they had everything they owned packed up including their two farming droids. The last child was nine years old and was in the hospital because his father broke his arm when he did accidental magic.
Two days later, after the last child had been rescued, the two ships lifted off and headed back to Felucia and landed by the cave. The holds of both ships were packed with supplies and equipment for the settlement.
They found the five Jedi working on their ship. With Luna and Harry's help they changed the ships colors to black and silver instead of bright orange. Aayla, Sirius and Shaak Ti went over the course to Sirius's world with a stop to meet Jedi Master Yoda at a rendezvous, that had been set up by the temple survivors. Three weeks after the betrayal, the three ships lifted off the planet and hypered away.
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The early morning sun was blossoming over the Romanian Dragon Reserve and Charley Weasley was at hard at work at his desk when one of his workers burst into his office, "Boss… Boss…" the man said gasping.
"Calm down, take a deep breath, and then tell me what's wrong?" Charley ordered.
The man took several deep breaths before replying, "The dragons are all gone."
Shocked the red head looked at his second in command, "What do you mean their all gone?"
Reginald Blightburn looked at his boss and replied, "Just like I said. We went out to feed them and check on them but their all gone from their nests. Even the eggs had vanished."
"How?" Charley asked as he stood up and grabbed his broom and hat before walking to the door.
"I don't know but it looks like something just scooped the nest and dragon up out of their enclosures and took it away," Reginald replied.
They wouldn't know, but around the world, thousands of magical species vanished to appear on the continents of Sirius's world with the most deadly creatures on the uninhabited ones. Plants also vanished, and appeared around the settlement. Plants that were needed in potions as well as wand trees, and the tree's inhabitants: bowtruckles. Slowly, around the world, samples of magical fauna and species of the planet earth vanished. The colonies of merpeople also were taken as well before anyone in the magical worlds knew it, they would have a better life than what they'd had before. Even the Dementors were transported to an island way out in one of the oceans, where wards would prevent them from leaving.
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Edited By TeNderLoin
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Harry Potter™ is a registered trademark and copyright (©) of J.K. Rowling and all that crap. The only thing mine is the idea and several characters. Everything else is hers including all the money... Star Wars is owned by Disney.… Damn wish they'd share and why oh why did George sell out.
