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This story is being made as a challenge to my self to see how fast I can pump out chapters if I don't care about plot, canon, relevance, length, spelling, grammar, or continuity (Since those things are where most of my time go).
It started because someone asked just how fast can I write a story when I try. So at the end of ever chapter I will put down the number of hours, minutes and seconds the chapter took to write.
But the rule is that I have to put out one chapter every day and can't start on the next chapter until the next day.
This will not be my best work, but it will hopefully be entertaining.
Lets see how long I can last.
Chapter Seven
Day two of classes
Danny woke up with a yawn, finding that he was still on the roof. He went back to his room and quickly changed. He was half way out of the common room before Malfoy set right in front of him with a strange look on his face. "Is something wrong Draco?" Danny asked him.
"That Malfoy to you." he snapped before shying back away, "It's just… why did you help me? There was no reason to; you get nothing out of it."
"It was the right thing to do." Danny said simply. "If you're looking for some kind of master plan then sorry, I am a pretty simple guy upstairs." Danny put his arms around behind his head. "If something feels right I do it, if it feels wrong I stop it. And what Professor Moody was doing felt wrong."
"But if it had been you I wouldn't have stopped it. And it all started because I attacked your brother." Malfoy said almost as if he was trying to tell Danny off for helping him.
"How does that change the fact that you were the one in danger?" Danny said walking past Malfoy. "I am a simple simple man, Malfoy. The sooner you accept that fact the happier you will be." Danny said waving behind him without looking.
Later Danny was sitting at the table with his friends for breakfast. "You really should go to the Hospital Wing mate." Fred started.
"Having a gold plated heart like yours can't be healthy." George finished the joke.
Danny busted out laughing. "Y-you guy are pr-probably right about that." Danny managed to get his breath back. "I probably on an ex dark wizard hunters hit list now, and he is one of my teachers to." Danny took another bit out of his pancakes. "But what could I do?"
"You could have let the git get what's coming to him." Lee replied.
"Come on Lee, you know that it is just how Danny is. Pranks are one thing, but he won't like people end up in danger like that." Ginny said.
"It did look rather painful for Malfoy to say thank you to me, I thought he might have a heart attack. Good thing you need a heart to have one of those." Danny said to the great pleasure of Lee and the twins.
"We got the A-list that you asked for and gave a copy to Peeves and said it was from you. It only has the names of people that are openly vindictive against people of 'lesser families'." Lee said, air quoting the last words.
"Peeves reacted weirdly though." Fred said.
"He kept going on saying 'anything for the prince'." George said.
"Oh great and how many people now about that." Danny said burying his face in his hands.
"It is about you, so I would say more than half the school knows by now." Neville said only to hear Danny grown.
"So people so far know that I have been nicknamed; the prince, Sir Phantom, and The Great One." Danny said. "I hope they don't start learning my less flattering nicknames; like whelp and dipstick.
"People have nicknamed you that?" Ginny asked with a giggle.
"Sadly yes." Was Danny's only response before he looked at the clock? "I got to go. I have a lot of classes today." And like that he was gone.
"So when are you going to ask him out Ginny." Lee turned on Ginny and got the response he was hoping for.
Ginny was turning a shade of red that no one even new existed. "I am not going to ask him out." There was a light pause before she continued. "The isn't even anywhere to go we are suck in the school grounds."
"She admits she has feeling." Fred cried out. "George get the drinks, we need to celebrated."
"Stop it all of you!" She shouted before placing her head between her knees.
"There is no time for that Ginny." George said patting his little sister on the back. "In case you haven't noticed Danny is pretty hot stuff and as soon as other girls notice this you will have a lot more competition."
"I don't know, what do you think I should do Neville." Ginny ask, thinking that she shouldn't trust the pranksters.
"I am not talking about this." Neville held his arms up in the universal I got nothing sign. "If you want advice go and get it from Hermione or your mom, not from me."
"That was really good advice, thanks Neville." Ginny said and walked off to find Hermione.
"They grow up so fast." George said with a hand on Fred's shoulder.
"Considering neither of you has ever had a girlfriend." Add Lee.
The next few hours rolled by and the group found themselves back at the table for lunch, but Danny had yet to arrive.
"Well the Hermione idea was a bust." Ginny said. "That girl knows nothing about men. She did give me one good idea though. The Triwizard Tournament has a dance. If I just drop hints around that time maybe things will go my way."
"Better plan then any we have so far." Lee said. "We were planning on locking you to in a closet with a bunch of angry monkeys to make sure he couldn't just magic the door open."
"But we didn't know where we were going to get the monkeys." George said.
"And we didn't know how fast he would beat them all up the shape he is in." Fred add.
"And the smell wouldn't be the best thing either." Neville add starting to like being in this group.
"Please do not do that." Ginny said with a sickened look on his face.
"Ha, guy." Danny said.
"So what is dreaded day number two been like for you?" Lee asked.
"Well, I have slept through a History of Magic, and been banned from Herbology and Divination." Danny said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Why?" Fred and George laughed.
"I killed every plant I touched in green house three and some were found dead in green houses two and four." Danny said. "I didn't even go into green houses two and four." They all started to laugh.
"What about Divination." Ginny asked with a warm smile.
"Every time someone looked into my crystal ball, it shattered. After about five balls I switched to tea leafs, but those somehow went up in flames." Danny said dipping his head forward. "The Professor said it was a bad sign. I say 'no, really'." The laughing to even louder.
"Well at least that cleans up your schedule a little." Neville tried to look on the bright side. That was new for him.
"I guess so. But I still don't understand how the tea caught fire." Danny said.
"Anyways, I hear the students from the other schools are going to arrive tomorrow." Ginny said.
"That means the tournament is going to start soon." Fred said.
"Me and Fred got our aging potion ready to go." George said.
"May the Ancients watch over you on your choose path." Danny said raising his glass of pumpkin juice.
"Why do you talk like that?" Neville asked.
"It is just good manners where I come from." Danny said shrugging. "Just like saying 'god bless you' when someone sneezes." Danny looked up at the clock. "I think I have Defense against the dark arts with the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws. Come on Ginny, don't want to be late."
Danny didn't notice Ginny's blush and he took her hand and they went off out of the Great Hall. "I wander if she will keep her own last name whenever she marries him." George started.
"Ginny Clockwork doesn't sound any better than Danny Clockwork." Fred add.
"Ginny Potter don't sound that good either, so even if Danny changes his name back it won't make a different." Lee finished.
"I am starting to wander who is crazier. You guys for general lack of sense, Danny for his heart of gold complex, or me for staying here with you guys." Neville said laughing.
Danny and Ginny got to the Defense against the Dark Arts class and got seats with Luna in the third row. Ginny was vaguely aware that she and Luna were getting glares from most of the girls in the class and one or two boys. She was starting to worry if he brothers were right about competition. But the fact that Danny didn't seem to take notice whenever girls started to offer to let him sit with them gave her hope.
Danny sat up straight when he felt an electric charge once again jump between his fingers. He looked to the door and sure enough there was Professor Moody, waking forward with a locked trunk under his arm. "Class, today I am going to be teaching you about the unforgivable curses. Now you are never to use these curses on anyone. The use of any of them on another human being means life imprisonment." Some of the other students gulped. "Before I start, can anyone name one of these curses?" Ginny raised her hand. "Yes Ms Weasley."
"The Imperius Curse." Ginny said.
"Just like your brother getting that one. Yes the Imperius Curse gave a lot of people in the ministry trouble." Moody said will bringing three jarred spiders out of his trunk and placing them on his desk. He pointed his wand at one of the spiders and said, "Imperio." Danny felt another light jolt in his hands. The spider jumped up and started to do tricks at the command of the Professor. Most of the students were laughing. But Danny understood what it was like to be controlled like that and didn't even chuckle. He was busy looking at Moody's human eye and he didn't like what he saw there. There was enjoyment. Moody criticized the class for laughing. And he told them the darker side of the control. Again Danny didn't like the look in his eye, the hunger for that control. "Does anyone now another." Luna raised her hand.
"The Cruciatus Curse." she said in her sing song voice, sound a lot more sad than usual.
"Yes the curse of pain." He made a spider grow until it was bigger than his hand, and then he said it. "Crucio." The electric came from Danny's hands again as the spider started to rive and twitch in pain. Danny saw that look again. But soon it was over. And he was asking for the last curse. This time Danny raised his hand. "Yes Mr. Clockwork."
"The killing curse, Avada Kedavra. But I don't think it is necessary to show that one is it?" Danny said hoping beyond hope that he wouldn't show it.
"They need to know what it looks like Mr. Clockwork." He placed the final spider on the desk, and then said it. "Avada Kedavra." There was a bright flash of green light, electric sparks went off once again between Danny's fingers, and the spider stopped moving. "The killing curse, only one person has ever survived it." He paused, "But we need to know what it looks like and what it sounds like so that we can block or dodge it. But we will not be practicing it or the Cruciatus curse. No point. But with practice you can resist the Imperius curse." He looked that the class, "Can I get a volunteer to go first." There were no takers. "How about you Mr. Clockwork. Your brother did pretty well his first try, he half way resisted."
Danny got up and went to the front of the class. Moody pointed his wand at Danny and said. "Imperio." Danny didn't move. "Know jump on the table." Moody commanded.
"No thanks." Danny said.
Moody looked shocked that the boy could resist so completely on his first try. It was expected for Harry Potter the boy how lived to have some resistance but his brother. Moody didn't knowing about Danny's mental barriers or his experience against mind control or else he would not be surprised. "Jump on the table." He tried again.
Danny decided to be witty. "Ladies first." Danny said with a smile.
"Well," Professor Moody started, "you did amazingly Mr. Clockwork. Full marks for the week and ten points to Slytherin." Moody looked a little taken aback. "You may go now Mr. Clockwork."
Danny left the room and when to go prepare for his other classes. Danny went to his Charms with Slytherin and Hufflepuff and Transfiguration with Slytherin and Ravenclaw where he sat with Luna again.
After the class was over he got up saying goodbye to Luna and went down to the Dungeons for another detention with Snape. "Hello Professor Snape." Danny said after entering Snape's office.
"Sit down." Snape instructed him and so Danny did. "Before anything else I have hear that you have a multitude of scars on your person. Is that correct Mr. Clockwork?"
"Yes sir." Danny said flatly, he didn't like talking about his scars.
"I would like to see if we can't remove them through potions." Snape said without looking at Danny. "Your Detention for today will be to make a scar removing potion. Under my guidance."
"Yes Professor." Danny got out the book with the potion in it and gathered the ingredients and starts to get to work. Danny was confused as to why the detention was to make something to help him but didn't call the Professor out on it. After only forty minutes they were done.
"Good now to apply it to the wounds." Snape said. Danny took off his robe and shirt and started to put the purple paste to the scars. A look of pain crossed Snape's face when he saw the condition of the young boy's body. He knew that the stuff would need to be left on for five hours in order to remove the scars so after he was done he put back on the shirt and robe and started to clean and sanitize his work station. But before he left he stopped at the door. "Professor, can I ask you something."
"What is it Mr. Clockwork?" Snape asked looking up from his grading.
"I have a bit of an accidental magic reaction whenever you or Professor Moody enters a room with me." Danny didn't know why he was asking Snape this but… "It also happened every time Professor Moody used one of the Unforgivables. I was wandering…" Danny paused for a second. "Do you think you could tell me what the reaction means and why it only happens with you two?"
"I suppose since it was reacting to the Unforgivable Curses, then it could be a reaction to dark magic." Snape started. "Being an ex-auror would leave a lot of residual dark magic on him."
"But then would it react to you?" Danny asked.
Snape paused for a long will thinking about just what he was going to say. "During the war against the Dark Lord I was once one of his Death Eaters." He looked at Danny thinking he would see disgust or anger, but only seeing confusion.
"What made you change sides?" Danny asked, as if there was no doubt in his mind that Professor Snape was good.
"I found out that He-How-Must-Not-Be-Named was going after yours and Harry's mother." Snape looked away. "She was a muggle born but even so she had always treated me as a friend and stood up for me when your father and his friends would pick on me. It was not until I realized what I was doing was putting her endanger that I switched sides. But by then she had to go into hidden with you, your brother, and father. I never got the chance to ask for her forgiveness. Do you… Do you think she would have forgiven me?"
"I don't know. I can't even remember her." Danny said honestly. "But I can say that I would forgive you."
Tears started to form in Snape's eyes, but he quickly hide them. "So you are concerned with these feelings that you are getting from Moody?"
"Not really so much the feelings as the look in his human eye whenever he preformed one of the curses. I have seen that look before." Danny thought back to the future self and the look in his eyes when he was preparing to kill. "It is the look of a killer. And man that commits murder and doesn't care."
"I understand where you are coming from." Snape said. "But that probably is not the real case. In order to use one of those spells you have to be in a truly evil mind set. So he would force himself into that mind set for the demonstrations."
"Makes sense I guess." Danny said, starting to feel a little better about it.
"If it makes you feel more at ease I will speak to Professor Dumbledore about it and we will keep a closer eye on Professor Moody."
"Thank you Professor Snape." Danny said with a bow. "I really should be getting to dinner. See you tomorrow Professor."
As Danny turned to go Snape called after him. "There is no need for that. We both now you don't deserve detentions for standing up for your friends. Just go, and if you don't come back for advice I will see you in class on Monday."
Danny smiled back. "Thank you for understanding Professor." Danny left leaving Snape alone to himself.
"He is just like you Lily." Snape said to no one. Tears openly falling down his face.
Danny went back up to the Great Hall and joined his friends at the dinner table. "You're back early." Ginny said. "How did your detention go?"
"Better than expected. He canceled all the other detentions and I don't think he will give me trouble over the choices I make anymore." Danny replied, helping himself to some cooked chicken and a salad.
"Already, I thought you said it would take two weeks." Neville said clearly impressed by how the younger boy had conquered what was a giant in the minds of Hogwarts students.
"I cannot revel the details. It was a discussion between men and is thereby sacred." Danny said waving him off.
Fred, George and Lee all broke into laugher. "You just love being a mystery don't you mate?" Fred asked.
"I would be lying if I said it wasn't fun." Danny's toothy grin made them all want to shove his head into the bowl of punch but they resisted the temptation.
"So did your dad tell you who the other Champions would be, assuming you are one of them?" Fred asked.
"I don't know, he said that the competitions where not interactive so I didn't really matter who the others were." Danny said. "Also my future is the only one Clockwork can't look into. So I don't even know if I will get picked." Danny looked at them. "I have uncertainties to you know."
"So he sends you in not knowing the outcome and puts your life in danger?" Harry had jumped into the conversation.
"Well I am the best there has ever been as far as Clockwork cares. In the last two years I have fought two dragons, several giant robots, two shape shifters, and two armies of petty spirits numbering around two hundred in one and two hundred thousand in the other, not to mention Pariahs Dark, Fright Knight, Dark Dan, Vortex and Undergrowth. All of whom are classified as world destroying Dark Gods. And that not even counting all the little things that are not strong enough to be worth mentioning like the hydra, or Cujo." Danny said pushing the concerns away. "He doesn't worry about me because I am the best there has ever been at surviving attacks."
Everyone around him was shocked. One Dark God was one thing, but five. And yet with the way the ghosts talk about him they had no doubt that he was telling the truth. Luckily no one outside of the group and Harry's friends heard or else the legend around Danny would grow even bigger. "Listen guy I am going to go and train a little before I hit the books. See you all tomorrow." Danny got up and walked with staff glowing in hand, turned himself invisible and floated away.
"I have heard of those Spirits he named." Everyone turned to Hermione sat there with wide eyes. "After they mentioned Danny sealing way a Dark God, I did some research on them. In the books I looked at they said that there were only eight known 'World Destroying Class Dark Gods'. They are called that because one of them has the power to destroy the entire world in one day. He mentioned four of the ones on the list. Pariahs Dark is known as the Ghost King, because he is the most powerful of all spirit. I can't imagine anyone going up against something like that. Not to mention Vortex is consider a close second since he can call up enough rain to flood the planet and people usually don't survive getting hit by a lightning bolt." Hermione paused for an unnaturally long time. The others were worried that she might be broken, but as suddenly as she stopped she started again. "If someone thought it was necessary to send someone that could beat spirits like those, then maybe something bad is about to happen."
They all looked uncomfortable. "I believe in Danny." Ginny said. "No matter what happens I think he can pull through."
"Because you like him." George said, and just like that the mood lightened a little until Harry opened his mouth.
"Which of the spirits he mentioned were not on the list?" Harry asked.
"I have never heard of a spirit called Dark Dan." Hermione admitted. "But I only did a day of research. Speaking of which, we were going to go to the library to try to find a book on anyone with the last name Clockwork."
"More research." Ron moaned. "Remind me why I keep doing that with you. It's not like I am the one that ever finds anything."
"Come on Ron." Hermione grabbed him and started pulling him away. Harry following behind.
"So to get onto a lighter subject." George grinned.
"What do you think the odds are that Ron and Hermione will get together before leaving school?" Fred said.
"No way is that going to happen." Neville laughed.
"You never know, opposites attract." Ginny said also grinning like her brothers. "And did you see the way she was pulling him away. He is clearly wiped."
"I don't know, as long as Harry is there being the third wheel…" Lee said.
"You guys are crazy." Neville laughed.
"Maybe we should try to help Neville find a girlfriend brother of mine." Fred said with a devilish grin at George.
"Couldn't agree with you more brother of mine." George replied with an identical grin.
"Maybe you to should find your own girlfriends." Lee said. "Or help your sister keep other girls away from Danny."
"That is an idea." Fred jumped on it. "We can make him a colon that no girl could ever stand."
"Yes, we can call it Foley, because it will smile like fertilizer to girls." George said. "I think I remember one of the potions we messed up on in Potions class having that affect."
"I remember that one. All the girls ran out of the classroom but the boys couldn't smell a thing." Fred said.
"But then how am I supposed to sit with him?" Ginny asked.
"Oh yah." Her brothers said together will visibly deflating. "Still a good back up idea though." Fred said.
They left for the evening Ginny and Neville when back to the common room to do home work, while Fred, George, and Lee, went to moaning Myrtle bathroom with they found out from Harry was a good place to work on potions without being disturbed. Myrtle even gave her approval when she found out it was to make a potion to keep mortal girls away from Danny.
Danny flew out to find a clearing in the forbidden forest to practice his chain work. The attack of random giant spiders, wolfs and some other creatures Danny couldn't identify only helped to improve the training exercises. After about ten minutes all the creatures started to run at the sight of him. 'Fast learns,' Danny thought, 'Now if I could just get the Box Ghost to learn like they do.'
Harry and his friends went to the library to try to do research on Clockwork. Only to be told that all the books on Ghosts vanished and that they suspect Peeves of being involved. Hermione was beside herself until she had a thought. Peeves couldn't have gotten into the forbidden section of the library. Maybe they could get permission from Professor Hagrid or Moody to look for info about spirits. One thing's for sure, it will take more time to get at any relevant information. Harry and Ron used it as an excuse to call it quiet's for the evening.
And like that another day went by and everyone was excited to see the other schools arriving the next day.
This chapter took 1 hour 37 minutes and 37 seconds to write.
This is getting really tiring, and I haven't written a big fight scene in four whole days. Trust me that is a long time for me. I think I am going to start going into withdraw soon. Don't be surprised if one of these days I just drop everything and have a giant monster battle for no reason at all. Because that is how I usually roll.
After I was finished writing this chapter, I noticed a review that said I was spelling George name wrong, and I actually weighed the amount of time it would take me to do a replace all command and at first thought that the seconds it would cost me weren't worth it. That should show you just how little it means to me.
Week one complete. (When will this end?)