Chapter 4

Thuvaraiyam Pathi, Planet Nibiru; 2256

The year was nearly over and Harry was amazed by how much they had managed to get done. Dinas Affaraon had been completed, furniture had been moved in, portraits hung and already the house elves were waiting for the children to arrive. In the next month the children would be tested on skills and learning to make sure they were properly placed in the right academic classes. Most of the kids had been excited, although like any kid they whined about being kept indoors doing homework when they could be out exploring their new home. Harry, like the others chosen to be teachers, had smiled pleasantly and reminded them they would still have time to be outside during the day.

So the children had relented long enough for Harry and some of the other teachers to take them on a tour of the school and the grounds. The children had been impressed by the ancient suites of armor that had once defended Hogwarts students from countless Dark Lords throughout the centuries. Giant stone lions guarded the entrance to the school grounds, watching over all who entered, their jeweled eyes twinkling as they growled and purred at the children walking by. The beautifully carved Kirins and Unicorns that guarded the entrances to the castle itself were happy to be fawned over by the girls in the group. A Muggle born girl had cried out in surprise when she had seen them, telling everyone they looked just like the ones her Mother had bought from the artiest Melody Pena before the wars. Harry had been pleased to tell her that Mrs. Pena had been one of the Muggles that had left Earth with them as she had family that were magical. The girls had been sad to wander away from the happily prancing stone statues, but had been suitably distracted by the other wonders of the school interior.

Another of the cities that was up and running already was the medical city of Avalon. The Doctors and Mediwizards were already settled in and healing the workers who were building various other cities for the colony. Harry and the Council had been relieved to see how well the Muggle and Wizarding healers had been able to work together. They had spent most of the year training each other in what they could do, what they couldn't cure and how things could be combined to work even better for their patients. Harry had been lucky so far and needed nothing other than a bit of rest after each of the days spent using his magic to shape and build the school. There had been no broken bones, fevers or other loss of life or limb for him yet. Madam Pomfrey had been most pleased to see she wouldn't have to have a room set-aside just for him. Harry was silently grateful as well.

The first city of Agartha had doubled in size this year with the influx of newly awakened people. Already, most of the young Muggles had decided to settle there as the city was much more metropolitan in style than any of the others. Harry had heard several exclaim that it reminded them of New York and some of the other larger cities of the United States and Europe. The large forested park was still there at the heart of the city, filled with plants and flowers native to Nibiru and Harry had been glad to see just how amazed everyone was by the bioluminescent trees and plants. Even some of the animals that had been living in the caverns before they came had stayed in the park. The bats his teams had seen were still in the upper cavern but now many of them would come down into the park at night, lighting up the sky as they hunted down bugs, nibbled on the trees fruit and drank deeply from the large pond and the fountains spread throughout the city. Muggle and magical style restaurants, theaters and dance halls had sprung up alongside the park, clothing shops, Gringotts Bank, a large farmer's market, several Newspapers including the Quibbler. Harry like the city but found he felt a bit claustrophobic surrounded by the thousands of people already making their homes in the apartment style homes in the cavern walls. He couldn't imagine living there especially since more and more people were requesting homes to be carved into the walls every day. Soon the Council would have to start declining the requests and look to build another Muggle style city nearby.

So here Harry was in the city of Thuvaraiyam Pathi looking at some of the homes that were being built here. He had thought about buying a home in New Hogsmead, the small city built in a side cavern near the school. But he was already going to be spending most of his time there teaching DADA to the first through fifth years. So a home in one of the other cavern cities sounded much more appealing. He liked the idea of living in Thuvaraiyam Pathi. It was a good-sized cavern with a beautiful combination of Indian and Asian style architecture. The people already living and working there all seemed to be relaxed and friendly, not caring if you were magical or Muggle. The homes in the city varied in style. Some built into the walls of the cavern, filled with large sprawling rooms with magical windows that let them look into and over the underground ocean. There were also homes built on the floor of the cavern that joined up to shops for the owners to use. Craftsmen and cooks had already claimed many of these homes. Street vendors would line the walkways offering a wide variety of foods. Lamb, fish, vegetarian meals, noodles and rich smoothies made with Earth fruits and local fruits, and so many other types of food that Harry was sure it would take a lifetime to try everything!

If one followed the path formed by the street vendors you would find yourself in a large open-air market. Musicians and acrobats danced and wove themselves throughout the crowd, leaving smiles on the faces of the people shopping. Beautifully carved Foo Dogs and Tigers guarded the entrance to various areas of the city and market. Children were climbing all over the statues, laughing and smiling as the occasional statue jumped up and darted about in circles while the children held on, crying out in glee. On the other side of the market the cavern opened up onto the ocean. Carefully carved steps lead into the water, allowing people to swim, fish and set out paper lanterns to float out into the ocean. Down the way, out of view from the market, a complex set of piers were being built so that the humans could have ships tied up and where the water bound species like the mermaids, could meet the humans for trade. It worked well for this city, allowing the mermaids and selkies to do the fishing and crabbing, while the ships the humans used were designed solely for transport of people and goods to the other caverns bordering the ocean, and perhaps one day, to the other side of the underground ocean.

Thuvaraiyam Pathi had turned itself into a wonderfully vibrant city filled with some of the kindest people Harry had ever met. The cooks made meals fit for royalty. The craftsmen here amazed him with their skills. The woodworkers labored to carve beautiful doors, statues and wooden dishes. The stairwells in the homes here had also been hand carved by these men and women and already Harry had arranged to have the doors to Dinas Affaraon carved by these artisans. And once he had his own home he hoped to have them carve his doors, stairs and furniture as well.

There were also textiles and fabrics being woven by the women of the city, sold in their own shops here and by their families in the other cities and Harry could already tell that these fabrics were going to become quite expensive, just as the ceramics and woodwork being produced here would. Should they ever meet the aliens the Council was sure were living out in the stars, Harry wanted to be able to have some of these crafts on hand to offer in trade or as good will gifts. He would have to speak with the council to see if they could have a Guild built here to teach the children and people who wanted to learn how to carve wood, weave fabrics, harvest silks, and shape and paint ceramics. Many of the families here would likely teach their own children these skills, but it would be nice to have a school or some kind of apprenticeship that could be offered to others who wanted to learn.

"Harry!"

Harry turned and smiled at the dark haired young woman making her way through the crowded market to where he was seated, eating a meal of smoked fish, jasmine rice and steamed vegetables. "Good afternoon, Cho."

"Sorry I'm late," she said as she dropped into the empty seat beside him.

"No problem. I'm actually surprised I'm not the one running late today." They laughed together, comfortable with each other in a way they hadn't been on the first disastrous date so many years ago. Cho gave her order to a young woman in an apron at the stall, taking in a deep breath when the girl set down a plate of shrimp curry in front of her.

"Merlin, this smells heavenly." Cho took bite, moaning around her spoon.

"Yeah, this is one of my favorite spots to eat so far."

For several minutes the two sat there in silence, just enjoying their food. Around them the people of the city went about their business, shopping, selling, eating and just generally enjoying themselves. It was a nice change for what their lives had been not that long ago. Harry watched Cho as she finished her meal and thanked the serving girl before rising from her seat. Standing Harry moved to follow her, calling out his thanks to the old man who had cooked the meal, smiling as the man gave him a wide grin and a wave back.

"Have you seen many places here yet?"

"No," Harry said, glancing over to Cho. "I've looked at a couple of the small homes here at ground level and two of the apartments in the cavern wall."

"Okay, not a bad start. Did you like anything in particular about them?"

"I liked the views from the cavern wall apartments, but I liked the size and layout of the ground based homes a bit more."

"Okay." Cho hummed softly to herself for a moment. "There is one we just finished carving out yesterday. We haven't put it on market yet since it's a new design layout for an actual house sized place in the cavern. It's not as close to the heart of the city as the ones already available, but it has more space and a better layout."

"Okay. Can we see it?"

Cho chuckled. "Of course. You think anyone is going to say no to The Chosen One?"

"I don't want to be a bother."

"It's okay. If you like it we could build one just for you in a spot of your choice. We can even work with you to customize the layout a bit and add in specific features."

"I'll keep that in mind. I didn't really want to do anything that would make more work for you though."

"Oh, Harry. Honestly it's not a problem. Those of us designing and building the homes want input from the people living in them so that after it's built they don't come back telling us this isn't working for their needs and they need a new home built. In the long run it'll make it easier. Besides, we are setting up most of the houses with Wizard space so that they can be expanded without us running out of room for other homes faster than the exploration teams can find new caverns suitable for long term habitation."

"Alright. I give. Show me this place."

Cadet's Quad, Starfleet Academy, Earth; Late 2256

For once in his life Jim felt good about himself. He had friends, he was being given the chance to learn without being harassed about his IQ or his "nerdy" behavior, and for the first time since Tarsus IV he felt like he was doing something that mattered. That he was going to be able to help people. So, yeah, he felt good. It was an amazing feeling. One he never wanted to let go of.

Before Tarsus IV he had really only had his brother Sam as a friend. All the other kids either harassed him because he was a genius level IQ, or were too impressed with his father to make Jim comfortable around them. Then after Tarsus IV he found it too hard to trust anyone, especially authority figures. The only people he had spoken to for years were the kids he had kept alive and away from Kodos. Eventually he had turned to drinking in order to fight back the need to hide himself away from everyone. In one way it had worked, loosening his control over himself enough to approach others, to talk and flirt with them, and on one or two occasions, to have sex with them. But drinking had not been a good long term plan. It made it easier to relax those emotions that forced him to become a hermit, but that also meant the emotional control that kept his anger corralled internally was gone as well. And that led to bar fights, broken ribs, bruises, and injuries that were more often than not, hard to hide and treat himself.

But all of that ended with one man challenging him to do better, to be better.

Jim owed Captain Pike his best and he wasn't going to fuck it up because he couldn't face the horrors of Tarsus IV. So he had taken Bones advice and instead of hacking and re-writing the Kobayashi Maru, he had gone to Pike and told him what he thought of the sim and how he thought they could make it better, make it more challenging than something everyone knew going into they'd fail. It was the fourth defining moment in his life behind Tarsus IV, Sam running away and his mother leaving them with her dead-beat brother Frank. He only hoped that this moment would shape his life for the better. It was that hope that allowed him to make Bones his first non Tarsus related friend, to trust Bones' advice, to make friends with the outgoing Orion girl, Gaila, from the Linguistics Club, and to work with Commander Spock on reprogramming the Kobayashi Maru.

Jim was thankful everyday for the few new friends he had made and for how his life felt like it was heading somewhere better than it had been. Gaila would say it was the universes way of making up for all the crap it had shoveled onto him since he was born, but Jim wasn't sure he could believe in karma.

"-Jim. Earth to Jim," Bones shoved Jim's shoulder, dragging his attention away from his thoughts and back to the present.

"Huh?"

"Gaila has been talking to you for the last five minutes and you've got this blank look on your face. Show the lady a little respect and pay attention."

"Yeah. Sorry, Bones. Sorry, Gaila." Jim blushed as he turned to face Gaila, who just laughed at him good naturally. "What were you saying?"

"I had asked if you were planning on staying here over the summer to work on your project with the Vulcan hottie, or if you had plans to go elsewhere? Because if you are going to be here maybe you could take a few days to go to Disney Land with me? I've been told it holds historical significance for humans as well as being the happiest place on Earth."

Jim smiled and rolled over onto his stomach, the grass tickling his exposed skin. "I've never actually been to Disney Land."

"Really," Bones asked with shock.

"Mom was never around to take us and Frank didn't like being around kids all that much." Jim shrugged and pulled clumps of grass out of the dirt in front of him. "It's not a big deal."

Before Bones could say anything that was likely to upset Jim, Gaila interrupted by rolling over in the grass until she was laying along Jim's side, bodies touching from shoulder to hip. "Then you should go with me! We can experience it together."

"Okay. Sure." Jim smiled and went back to plucking grass.

"You should come too, Leonard," Gaila said with a warm bubbling laughter as she pictured the grumpy looking human in a spinning teacup.

"I won't have time between hospital rounds and visiting Joanna."

"Wait!" Jim's head snapped up, the turfs of grass forgotten. "JoJo is coming here?"

"Who's JoJo," asked Gaila.

"Yes, she's gonna' be here, and no I am not letting you spoil her."

"Oh, come on, Bones! JoJo loves me," whined Jim.

"No," Bones stated firmly.

"Hey!" Gaila shoved Jim's shoulder, knocking him into Bones' hip. "Who's JoJo?"

Bones snorted and shoved Jim away from him and back towards Gaila. "She's my daughter."

"I didn't know you had a daughter," replied Gaila.

"Because my ex-wife wishes I had fathered my little angel, that her rich new husband had done it instead."

"Why would she wish that," Gaila asked confused. "You are one of the nicest, if grumpiest, humans I have met. I think you seem like excellent father material."

Bones blushed and looked away from Gaila's rather frank gaze. Jim smiled at the flush that was getting redder by the second on his best friends face. "You could take her along. It would be like an awesome family outing."

"Oh yes!" Gaila cried, hands slapping Jim's shoulders in her excitement. "Bring her along! It'll be great. Right? Completely stellar!"

Bones groaned at the looks on Gaila and Jim's faces. He would be going whether he wanted to or not. Not that he really minded Jim tagging along with him and JoJo, and Gaila had been a good influence on Jim as well, so surely they couldn't cause too much trouble? Yeah, he didn't believe that. JoJo would be ecstatic to have her favorite uncle along with them, and to be going to Disney Land, adding the two together was sure to be pure chaos. But it would make his two favorite people happy. So he couldn't say no. His daughter would feed him to the pigs if he did.

Leonard let out a gusty sigh and pretended not to notice the wide knowing smirk on Jim's face.

Harry's House, Thuvaraiyam Pathi, Planet Nibiru; Late 2256

In the end Harry was happy with the choice of having his home custom carved into the cliff-face looking out over the ocean and the city below. He got exactly what he wanted and what he needed without having extra space that he couldn't do anything with. Though he had still been talked into adding more rooms than he had thought he needed, but Hermione and Cho had been adamant. He also still had quite a bit of stone behind what was already carved that he could carve out in later years if he ended up with a large family. Right now he was fine with a master suite, two guest bedrooms, two and a half baths, a library, family room, a formal sitting room, a large indoor hot spring pool (which Cho had designed to resemble the traditional Japanese style hot springs), a study with attached workroom, a large two story library, a small game room, a large kitchen, dinning room, and a large pantry.

The outside of his house was designed based on a photo he had seen of houses in Portofino, Italy. It was three stories tall with the bottom level being more roughly carved, river stone style rocks on the outside. Inside the bottom level is mainly mudrooms, cold storage, regular storage, the hot spring pool room and the outdoor stairs leading to the ocean and private dock. The outside of the second and third floors were smoothly polished and painted a warm yellow-orange with the balcony rails being made of carved white marble. One thing Harry had been adamant about though, was that he wanted to keep the star moss that was growing over the balcony ceiling and the walls of the house. It reminded him of ivy, but the dark blue color with the glowing white star-shaped flowers just popped against the warm tone of his home. It gave the home character he thought, like the moving staircases in Hogwarts always had.

The outside of his home still had to have several large balconies looking out over the underground ocean when he agreed to let Cho and Hermione add some of the other rooms he hadn't thought he needed as a bachelor. They had both agreed that considering the view he was getting from all the large arched windows in nearly every room, that adding large balconies to the bedrooms, dinning room, study and family room would be a must. Not having a balcony to enjoy the view and the breeze would have been a horrible mistake. He had also had some of the artisans in the city create several stained glass windows, which would mainly be in the main hall, library, study and formal sitting area. The house was also filled with beautifully carved wooden staircases, doors and ceiling beams made from the craftsmen of Thuvaraiyam Pathi.

There was so much to the human area of the house that Harry had nearly forgotten that he would be living with one owl and at least two house elves. So he had had to have a last minute owlry added onto the upper level of the house. Once that was done Harry had started to think about his elves. Harry's house elves, Kreacher and Bippy, were terribly handy fellows and Harry was glad that Kreacher, as ancient as he was, had survived the journey out here. Kreacher knew most of the objects and books that had been in the old Black mansion and vaults. Bippy had apparently been his grandparents house elf and as such knew all the belongings from the Potter houses and vaults. The elves were both very old and Harry was expecting to be forced, by them, to acquire new elves that Kreacher and Bippy could start training to take over for them. Still, Harry was grateful for all the old elves were doing. So he had made sure they knew he appreciated them by having a suite of four bedrooms with a shared courtyard, and two baths, made specifically for the house elves that would be attached to the kitchen and secret passages to allow them to get around the house without being seen or interrupted in their work.

The two house elves had gone above and beyond to fix up the house and prepare a feast for all the people who had come for Harry's house warming party after seeing their rooms and Harry had feared that Bippy might actually cry. Fortunately she hadn't and the two old elves had gone about their work like normal, but with a happy little bounce to their steps. All the Weasley's, the remaining members of The Order, the members of his scout team, several members of the DA, had been hand delivered indentations by the two elves, who had refused to leave without an RSVP. He had been surprised at the appearance of the two Fairies, Mini Snape and Hedwig, who had simply flown in through the Fairy hatch leading into the main entry hall. His surprise should have been greater but they really did follow Snape and him everywhere. It was a rare thing to find either wizard without their Fairies nearby. So honestly he had been half expecting the two to just appear at some point during the house warming party.

The only way the day could be better was if he didn't see several Council members coming towards his house with hands full of papers when he glanced out the window. Obviously he would only have about ten more minutes to enjoy his company and the wonderful house warming gifts before he was dragged off to do more work. He didn't mind helping, he actually quite enjoyed it, but he much preferred to be out exploring the new world, talking with the other people settling in, and seeing the new plants and animals that were being discovered every day. He only hopped he would be given permission to head another exploratory team before the school was to start. He wanted to head further north above ground since he wouldn't be allowed to go with the crew of the Star-farer as they went to search for other potential home worlds. That was a little disappointing but knowing that Neville and Dean would be on the team with Ginny made him happy. It was good to see his friends going out on their own and making a name for themselves. Especially Neville who had always been in the shadow of the other Gryffindors.

Harry glanced away from the window and back towards the group of friends and family surrounding him as Cho and her mother stepped forward, handing him a heavy looking bundle of fabric. Glancing down at the fabric that had been carefully placed into his hands, Harry looked up confused.

"It's a gift. I had to get Madam Pomfrey to help since it needed some of your blood to be created," Cho stated with a hesitant smile.

"What is it?"

"A bloodline tapestry," Cho's mother stated in a clear but husky voice. "The magic woven into the fabric along with your blood traces back your family history. It will show from you, your parents, back into the past. It may take a year or more to fully update itself as far back as it can. Right now it has only gone back 10 generations, but it shall show all your family members by blood for the last thousand years, at least."

"That's…I can't, I mean wow. I can't thank you enough, Ma'am." Harry was stunned. he had so little information about his family. He had been planning to look into it after defeating Voldemort but then the Eugenics War started and he never had the time. Harry had thought the information lost when they left Earth so long ago. "I don't know how to thank you. This is priceless."

The elder Mrs. Chang nodded, her eyes glinting with approval at his obvious understanding of how rare the gift was. "It is best not to hang it in direct sunlight, which is not so much a problem here." An amused grin tugged at the corners of her lips as she glanced about the room filled with large windows filling the room with artificial sunlight. "I will expect you at my shop 2 days hence, promptly at 7:00 am."

Harry nodded not sure what to say at the declaration, but he was saved from having to decide as the Council members he had seen out his window, were led into the room by Kreacher.

"Master Harry Potter, yous be having guests." Kreacher glared at the two new people standing behind him, who were glancing awkwardly around the room as the old elf glared at them. The other four council members must have remained outside rather than come in and interrupt his party.

"Thank you, Kreacher. Please feel free to go back to your regular duties."

"As Master Harry Potter Sir wishes." With a last glare at the two new arrivals Kreacher disappeared into one of the elves secret passages.

"What's going on, Mr. Varchetti," Harry asked suddenly worried.

"One of the scout teams has come back and we thought it best to call a meeting to go over what they have found."

"Anything of importance, Mr. Varchetti," asked Professor McGonagall.

"Uh, well," Mr. Varchetti glanced nervously at the short, round man standing next to him.

The shorter man sighed gustily at Mr. Varchetti before turning to face Minerva. "It is not overly important, but it may sway the nay-sayers into remaining on Nibiru rather than expending time and energy into locating another planet."

"Very well." Minerva turned to Harry who nodded his acceptance.

Harry sighed and shot his friends an amused grin. "It appears that today house warming party is over."

One by one his friends clasp his hand, hugged him, clapped him on the shoulder, as they left. It took almost five minutes for all of them to leave and Harry could see he still had a small pile of unopened gifts sitting on the table Kreacher and Bippy had put out earlier in the night just for that purpose. Glancing away from the table, Harry turned back to face the two council members who seemed to be getting royally reamed out by Professor McGonagall.

Harry tried not to smile. He honestly did, but watching his former Head of House rip the two stuffy council men a new one was just too great. They were actually cowering before her, which was quite impressive as Mr. Varchetti was at least 7 inches taller than her.

"Harry," Minerva called out, "We should leave now if we wish to get this all sorted out before nightfall."

"Alright," sighed Harry. "Kreacher!"

"Yes, Master Harry Potter Sir," the old elf asked from behind Harry.

Harry jumped and twisted to look at his elf. Kreacher might not look amused but Harry was sure the old elf had appeared there on purpose and was chuckling inside his mind at making Harry nearly jump out of his skin. "I'm going to be out late. The council has called a meeting. Please put diner under a stasis spell and I'll eat it when I get back."

"As Master Harry Potter Sir wishes."

Disney Land, Earth; Late 2256

Leonard was not sure what demon had been whispering in his ear when he agreed to take his little princess of a daughter to Disney Land with Jim and Gaila. He really didn't know and he was greatly regretting it, even if JoJo and Gaila looked beautiful dressed up like Belle and Ariel. He especially did not like that the green-blooded hobgoblin, Professor Spock, had tagged along as well. He knew part of that was because Spock was becoming friends with Jim and that meant that Jim spent less and less time with Leonard after classes were over than he had before. But it didn't stop Leonard from being, as his daughter called him, a Grumpy Gus, about the Vulcan tagging along. That mean spirited part of Leonard hoped that Jim, Gaila and Spock continued to suffer Cadet Uhura's wrath for Gaila and Spock choosing to go out with Jim rather than go with her to some xenolinquistics conference in San Deigo.

Either way the "Happiest Place on Earth" wasn't really somewhere he had ever planned to go with his fellow cadets. The last time he had thought of coming to Disneyland was when he was married and JoJo had been about three years old. He and Jocelyn had been trying to decide on vacation plans for the future at the time because they couldn't afford to go on vacation at the time. Leonard had only just started his own practice and couldn't afford to take the time off and Jocelyn's restaurant had finally started to get customers. Everything had been turning shinny side up for them. Sadly by the time JoJo was five, and they had the time and money to go, Jocelyn had gotten tired of being married to a country doctor and had set her sights on someone a bit better off. So being here today was hardly the way he had dreamed of coming to Disneyland.

But it hadn't been all bad. JoJo and Jim had somehow convinced the bloody Vulcan to go with them on Splash Mountain. Seeing the shocked look on the soaked Vulcan had been worth it. He looked a bit like a cat who had found itself in the washer. Seeing Gaila and JoJo singing along to A Small World had been almost as good since again the Vulcan seemed disturbed by the singing dolls. Not that Leonard blamed him, they were damned creepy and the song would be stuck in his head for days. Jim had also dragged them through The Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion and The Jungle Cruise about twenty times already. JoJo had also loved those rides and had grabbed Jim's had, swinging their arms and sang It's a Pirates Life For Me as they doubled back through Adventure Land and New Orleans Square.

Gaila had seemed to love the rides as well, though Leonard was surprised to find she like the Indiana Jones ride and the Tiki Tiki Room best as she had sang along with the birds on their second run through. Bones had to admit he did rather like the Indiana Jones ride, not that he would say anything about that as Jim would make them go on the ride over and over. So as they got off the Pirates ride once more, Leonard quickly guided them away from the ride and through the streets to the restaurant entrance. He figured that if they went into the Blue Bayou Restaurant, which was inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, then they could get a good lunch and maybe convince Jim and JoJo to go over to California Adventure and check out the rides there.

Unsurprisingly the others had agreed, though Leonard was sure that the Vulcan had only agreed to save himself from having to go through Toon Town, the one area of the park no one had really cared to go. Gaila and JoJo had both been excitedly dancing in place as they had waited to be seated, and even Jim looked excited at the prospect of eating inside one of his favorite rides. When they had finally been lead to their seats close to the waters edge, Leonard had had to admit the thirty-five minute weight had kind of been worth it. The atmosphere inside was amazing and it was certainly cooler inside than it would be at one of the other restaurants outdoor seating areas. So he had kept his grumbly over the prices as he had look over the menu to a minimum.

"It looks like it might be a hard choice on what to eat," Jim said excitedly. "I want to eat a bit of everything."

"Well you can't. Just pick one main meal and maybe you can have desert." Bones glared at Jim over his menu. "Your genetics make you prone to obesity and you don't have the metabolism of a teen anymore."

"You are such a buzzkill, Bones." Jim smiled at Leonard and glanced over at JoJo. "You're Dad is turning over into an old man, JoJo."

JoJo giggled behind her hand. "You're so silly, Uncle Jim."

"Uncle Jim," groaned Leonard.

"Perhaps your time would be better spent deciding on what you shall require for sustenance."

Leonard and Jim both looked over at Spock who simply raised that damn eyebrow at them in response to their looks of bafflement. "If you desire to see the remaining section of the park prior to the night parade, then you would be better served in deciding upon your meal swiftly so that you might finish it before the parade begins."

"He's right," Gaila stated as she set down her glass of water. "We don't have more than a few hours until sunset and we've still got all of California Adventures, the Harry Potter park and the new Interstellar Animal Kingdom to get through."

Jim chuckled and rested his arm over Gaila's shoulder, twirling her long red hair around his fingers. "You do realized that we can't do them all today? We'll have to save at least two of those for tomorrow."

Gaila pouted and rested her head against Jim's shoulder. "Gisjacheh, why didn't you say that earlier?"

"My god Woman, would you not use such language in public around such virgin ears," Leonard moved to cover his daughters ears as if to make her unheard the Kolari swear word.

"Oh, Leo-" Gaila started.

Whatever her response was going to be it was interrupted by the arrival of their waitress, who was dressed as some kind of serving girl Leonard supposed. "Are you ready or do you need another moment to decide?"

Leonard glanced at the others who shrugged, smiled, and Gaila's case, winked. "It looks like we're all set there, darlin'."

The waitress smiled and opened the small leather book that had been in her apron and Leonard was a little surprised to see that hidden inside was a small PADD. He shouldn't have been all that surprised given that a lot of the park had been upgraded after the Eugenics War, so that the tech running most of the original rides and attractions didn't look woefully out of date to visitors from other worlds. And as Leonard had noted upon entering the park, there were certainly a lot of those.

"I'll have the pan-seared Tesoro Island chicken with Boursin cheese mashed potatoes," Jim stated as he folded the menu back up and set it down at the edge of the table by their waitress.

"I'll have that as well," Gaila replied with a wide smile for their waitress who blushed as she caught sight of Gaila's hand slowly moving higher up Jim's thigh, and quickly looked to Leonard and JoJo.

Leonard sighed quietly as he felt Gaila's foot slide up his leg. He tossed her a quick glare, which did not stop her leering at him, glanced down at his menu and then back up to the waitress. "I'll have the the surf-and-turf combo and my daughter will have the Mickey Check seared salmon. Can she get a small side dish of the cheesy macaroni?"

The waitress smiled and continued to put their order in on her PADD. "Sure. We can do that. Would you like to add a side of fruit as well? We have some lovely peaches available right now."

"Yes, for both of us, please."

"Alright." The young girl then turned to Spock, her smile faltering slightly at the stern features of the Vulcan. "And for you, sir?"

"I shall have the vegan gumbo with a side of saffir with favinit butter."

"Alright." She added Spock's items to the list in her PADD and then looked at them all once more. "Anything to drink?"

"Water is acceptable," Spock stated as he handed her his menu.

"Water it is then. And for the rest of you?"

"Sweet tea for myself and a strawberry lemon aid for my daughter," Leonard added as Jim and Gaila glanced back over the menu again.

"I guess I'll have a small glass of the spiced rum and a large glass of water. Gaila?"

"Hmm." Gaila glanced over the menu again. "I guess I'll have a sweet tea as well."

"Alright. Your meal should be ready shortly." The waitress smiled again before flouncy off to another table.

"I wonder if her face gets tired having to smile so much…"

Jim burst out laughing, Gaila hid her face in Jim's shoulder as she laughed, and Spock simply raised his eyebrow again, making Leonard realize that he might have just said that out loud.

Council Chamber, Agartha City, Planet Nibiru; Late 2256

Harry leaned back in his seat, his cup on tea clasped in his hand resting on his thigh. Professor McGonagall and he had both rushed out of his housewarming party for this meeting and now they were stuck here waiting on the other council members to arrive. It irked him something fierce that he could have enjoyed his company for at least another hour before making his way here.

"I just don't understand why they rushed me out of my house to be here for this if no one else was on their way," Harry grumbled between long gulps of tea.

Minerva hmm'd her agreement with his complaint. "It's a common problem with politicians I'm afraid. I had hoped we wouldn't have to deal with once we got out of that war, but apparently one cannot escape the problem of politicians."

Harry groaned and laid his head down on the table, his tea cup lightly clattering against it's saucer. He was so ready for this day to be over. Ke had been up since dawn, or what passed for dawn in the caverns, moving furniture, hanging pictures and placing personal items in just the right spot while Kreacher and Bippy bushed about making finger foods for the guest and just generally doing whatever it was house elfs did in new homes. He should have been sitting down enjoying light conversation and all the diner foods that Bippy had started preparing as the guests had started to arrive. Instead he was sitting in this chair at the beautifully carved table he had commissioned from the artisans in his home cavern, waiting on the politicians who should have been here long before Harry and the Professor were dragged from his house.

"Wake me up when they get here, would you professor?"

Minerva snorted, looking at him with those inscrutable eyes from over the rim of her tea cup.

Harry let out a gusty breath and forced himself to sit up again. "Fine." he glanced about the room, looking for anything to hold his interest while they waited. He had been in the room far more often than he would have liked considering that he should be spending the last few weeks getting his lesson plans finalized with the other teachers who would also be teaching the defense classes. They didn't have long left until they would have the school opened up for the first year of classes held on their new home world.

Sighing again Harry turned to stare at the doorway, hoping that the noise he could hear now in the hall outside would be the arrival of the rest of the council. He wasn't honestly sure why he was still on the council, other than the fact that he was still the figure head of the war and most of the people outside the council seemed to almost worship him as some sort of deity, like he was the next coming of Merlin.

His thoughts were cut short as the door opened and the council began streaming in, taking their places around the oversized round table. Frienze, who had been chosen to represent the centaurs, smiled and nodded to Harry as he took his seat next to Ragnook, the Goblin representative. Madame Apolline Delacour seemed just as irritated as Harry felt, though the vela woman was carefully hiding it behind a polite facade.

It took, as usual, nearly twenty minutes to get everyone seated and calmed down enough for Mr. Varchetti to start the meeting.

"Ehem." Mr. Varchetti glanced nervously about the table, tugging at the edges of his robe. "Well, now that we are all here shall we begin?"

Harry tried not to smirk as he heard whispered complaints and at least one person muttering for them to "get on with it." He wanted to feel bad for Mr. Varchetti, who was normally one of the quieter and less volatile members of the council, but he was still irked at his pleasant day being interrupted.

"Scout team 64 returned earlier today, as I am sure some of you must have heard by now." Mr. Varchetti glanced about nervously and seemed to bolster himself as he daughter Professor McGonagall's gaze. "What they found will be of great importance to the continuation of our colony here on Nibiru."

"Well what have they found," demanded Severus, who had been chosen to be the councilman to represent the Potion Masters Guild. "Hurry it up, some of us have actual work to do today."

Mr. Varchetti wilted under Severus' gaze, glancing back to professor McGonagall again, who sighed before telling Severus, in polite terms, to shut up and let the man speak.

"Yes, well, uh…" Mr. Varchetti cleared his throat and glanced down at the scrolls in his hands. "Scout team 64 reported back that there is an end to the desert region we are currently in. They have actually mapped several hundred miles of grasslands so far which appear to be very fertile and perfect for farming. The grasslands also seem to supporting a large number of animal life, some of which may be able to be domesticated."

Mr. Varchetti dug through his pile of scrolls and began handing some out. "I have copies of their reports on the plant and animal life they have found, for those of you who wish to read them. They have also reported finding a large volcano in one area of the grasslands, within the boundaries of where the desert ends and the grasslands begin. The scout team has chosen to name the volcano Vulcan's Forge after the Roman God Vulcan who was the God of Blacksmiths, since the volcano apparently bubbles up fire, lava, and occasionally molten metals. They have brought samples back for further study by the Potions Guild, Metal Smiths Guild and the Geology Guild. the samples are being held in the storage chamber down the hall.

They have studied the area only for a short time but they do have some ideas about the effects of the volcano on the landscape. The ash from the volcano is spewed into the air regularly, fertilizing the grasslands below for hundreds of miles. They believe this will make the land some of the most fertile on the whole planet. They have observed that the herbivores of the grasslands gather in vast numbers much like in Africa, providing a suitably large enough stock of prey to help feed the cities and the dragons without causing too great a strain on the native predators. Though I would suggest that we capture some and domesticate them so that we lessen the risk of culling too large a number of the herds."

Mutters of agreement were made by the council and Mr. Varchetti seemed to relax into the discussion.

"There are also volcanic springs that are dotting the landscape. The scout team arrived at one in time to watch it dry up in the heat they turn into salt flats, the water then became poisonous. But that does not seem to stop life from finding ways to exist near to the lakes as the drying up lakes are host of various types of algae that many retiles and birds seem to have found a way to survive on."

"Is that all," asked Councilman Igerson, a man they had all come to realize loved the sound of his own voice and to be contrary just to be contrary. "I do not see why this was important enough to interrupt our existing plans. It is hardly enough to make the planet the perfect home for all of us."

"Well, if you wish to be then be gone. We shall all be happy to see you go," Madam Li stated.

Before Councilman Igerson could start to yell, Professor McGonagall cast a quick Silencio on the man. "That is quite enough of that. Your complaints shall be noted. As always, Mr. Igerson. Now," professor McGonagall turned back to Mr. Varchetti, "is there more to the report?"

"Yes. While they were exploring the grasslands they bumped into Scout Team 12 who had been sent to scout the northern portion of the planet. Team 12 advised them that almost a week past where Team 64 had camped, as the owl flys, the grasslands turned into a massive mountain range. Team 12 spent two days flying over the mountains and nearly missed a natural pass leading through the mountains to the other side. they estimate that it would take about two weeks of muggle style climbing to get from the base to the tops of the mountain peaks, but it should be easy enough to get a highway built through safely.

The mountains are high enough up that the tops are covered in snow and the middle regions are drenched with heavy rains almost daily. Team 12 has requested that we keep in mind the two names they came up with for the mountain ranges…The Rainmakers or The House of Zeus."

"And on the other side," inquired Madam Li.

"Rainforests," Mr. Varchetti said in breathless anticipation. "Rainforests with trees the size of skyscrapers. Waterfalls that make Niagra Falls look like a trickle and the smallest of the rivers they found were the size of the Amazon!"

The council burst out in excited clusters of whispers, mummers and exclamations. Rainforests! This was unexpected and Harry couldn't help but wonder… "Are these mountains and the rain forests the source of the underground rivers and ocean?"

Mr. Varchetti nodded his head so rapidly up and down that Harry was worried for a moment that it might break off from the sheer force of his excitement. "Yes! The weather is some of the most violent so far recorded. Lightning storms and heavy downpours of rain happen daily and 95% of the rain that falls here is generated by the forest itself! Team 12 trace two rivers into caverns leading into the underground. The team captain, Charlie Weasley, has requested that the Dragon Handlers be allowed to claim on of the large caverns they found as the Guild Headquarters and as an outpost for a small team of dragon riders."

"A cavern? Such an odd choice for them, one would believe," Madam Delacour stated.

"Perhaps, but it is a large cavern that is at the opening of the underground, so it does not quite seem to be as underground as our existing cities. They report it has a large enough plot of land for them and the dragons to comfortably reside and there is an overabundance of prey animals. It is also situated in an easily accessible portion of the rainforest and within a quick flight to the mountains, so they can lend assistance to and travels going over the pass that might find themselves in trouble. It would be a good plan to set up an outpost there as well as one in the grasslands, since we have had several requests from some of the nomadic tribes to be allowed to leave the caverns to set up their own villages again. A dragon rider could quickly lend assistance to a nomadic tribe on the move and would be able to help bring supplies from over the pass."

"Very well." Professor McGonagall stood up and tapped her wand lightly against the table top making a soft gong-like ring. "All in favor of naming the volcano Vulcan's Forge? …Motion passed. All in favor of naming the mountain pass The Rainmakers?"

A couple hands went up, but Harry could tell the name wasn't too exciting to the council members in comparison to the names they had chosen for other locations. The new world did seem to have a theme going with the names.

"All in favor of naming the mountains The House of Zeus?"

This time almost 95% of the council raised their hands.

"Motion passed. The mountains shall henceforth be known as The House of Zeus. All in favor of setting up a dragon outpost in the grasslands?" Another round of raised hands. "Motion passed. All in favor of allowing the Dragon Handler Guild to set up their headquarters and another outpost in the rainforest cavern?"

There was grumbling this time, but Harry noticed the motion still passed. Likely because many of the council members were old enough to remember when the dragons were a dangerous predator that would hunt humans. They still made people nervous even though they had been genetically tamed prior to The Ark leaving Earth and were no longer a threat to anything other than actual prey animals.

"Motion passed. Mr. Temish please inform the rest of your Guild that they can start planning out the location of their two new outposts."

"Thank you, Headmistress," Mr. Temish inclined his head towards McGonagall, a look of respect in his eyes. "I'll get the finalized plans to you by the weekend."

"Well Mr. Igerson, do you think the planet unsuitable now," Madam Delacour asked with a hint of amused superiority.